ClientSecretCredential Class

Authenticates as a service principal using a client secret.

Inheritance

azure.identity._internal.client_credential_base.ClientCredentialBase

ClientSecretCredential

Constructor

ClientSecretCredential(tenant_id: str, client_id: str, client_secret: str, **kwargs: Any)

Parameters

Name	Description
tenant_id Required	str ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its "directory" ID.
client_id Required	str The service principal's client ID
client_secret Required	str One of the service principal's client secrets

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
authority	str Authority of a Microsoft Entra endpoint, for example "login.microsoftonline.com", the authority for Azure Public Cloud (which is the default). AzureAuthorityHosts defines authorities for other clouds.
cache_persistence_options	TokenCachePersistenceOptions Configuration for persistent token caching. If unspecified, the credential will cache tokens in memory.
disable_instance_discovery	bool Determines whether or not instance discovery is performed when attempting to authenticate. Setting this to true will completely disable both instance discovery and authority validation. This functionality is intended for use in scenarios where the metadata endpoint cannot be reached, such as in private clouds or Azure Stack. The process of instance discovery entails retrieving authority metadata from https://login.microsoft.com/ to validate the authority. By setting this to True, the validation of the authority is disabled. As a result, it is crucial to ensure that the configured authority host is valid and trustworthy.
additionally_allowed_tenants	List[str] Specifies tenants in addition to the specified "tenant_id" for which the credential may acquire tokens. Add the wildcard value "*" to allow the credential to acquire tokens for any tenant the application can access.

Examples

Create a ClientSecretCredential.

   from azure.identity import ClientSecretCredential

   credential = ClientSecretCredential(
       tenant_id="<tenant_id>",
       client_id="<client_id>",
       client_secret="<client_secret>",
   )

Methods

close
get_token	Request an access token for scopes. This method is called automatically by Azure SDK clients.

close

close() -> None

get_token

Request an access token for scopes.

This method is called automatically by Azure SDK clients.

get_token(*scopes: str, claims: str | None = None, tenant_id: str | None = None, enable_cae: bool = False, **kwargs: Any) -> AccessToken

Parameters

Name	Description
scopes Required	str desired scopes for the access token. This method requires at least one scope. For more information about scopes, see https://learn.microsoft.com/entra/identity-platform/scopes-oidc.

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
claims	str additional claims required in the token, such as those returned in a resource provider's claims challenge following an authorization failure.
tenant_id	str optional tenant to include in the token request.
enable_cae	bool indicates whether to enable Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) for the requested token. Defaults to False.

Returns

Type	Description
AccessToken	An access token with the desired scopes.

Exceptions

Type	Description
CredentialUnavailableError	the credential is unable to attempt authentication because it lacks required data, state, or platform support
ClientAuthenticationError	authentication failed. The error's message attribute gives a reason.