List methods

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve a list of authentication methods registered to a user. The authentication methods are defined by the types derived from the authenticationMethod resource type, and only the methods supported on this API version. See Microsoft Entra authentication methods API overview for a list of currently supported methods.

We don't recommend using the authentication methods APIs for scenarios where you need to iterate over your entire user population for auditing or security check purposes. For these types of scenarios, we recommend using the authentication method registration and usage reporting APIs.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	❌

Permissions

The following tables show the least privileged permission or permissions required to call this API on each supported resource type. Follow best practices to request least privileged permissions. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permissions acting on self

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All

Permissions acting on other users

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts where the signed-in user is acting on another user, they must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

• Global Reader
• Authentication Administrator
• Privileged Authentication Administrator

Note

The authentication administrator only sees masked phone numbers.

HTTP request

List your own authentication methods.

GET /me/authentication/methods

List your own or another user's authentication methods.

GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/methods

Optional query parameters

This method does not support optional query parameters to customize the response.

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a collection of authenticationMethod objects in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/authentication/methods

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.Authentication.Methods.GetAsync();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc users authentication methods list --user-id {user-id}

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
methods, err := graphClient.Me().Authentication().Methods().Get(context.Background(), nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

AuthenticationMethodCollectionResponse result = graphClient.me().authentication().methods().get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let methods = await client.api('/me/authentication/methods')
	.get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->authentication()->methods()->get()->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.SignIns

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgUserAuthenticationMethod -UserId $userId

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.me.authentication.methods.get()

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "value": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.fido2AuthenticationMethod",
      "id": "-2_GRUg2-HYz6_1YG4YRAQ2",
      "displayName": "Red key",
      "creationDateTime": "2020-08-10T06:44:09Z",
      "aaGuid": "2fc0579f-8113-47ea-b116-555a8db9202a",
      "model": "NFC key",
      "attestationCertificates": [
          "dbe793efdf1945e2df25d93653a1e8a3268a9075"
      ],
      "attestationLevel": "attested"
    },
    {
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod",
    "id": "b5e01f81-1f81-b5e0-811f-e0b5811fe0b5",
    "displayName": "Jordan's Surface Book",
    "createdDateTime": "2020-11-27T23:12:49Z",
    "keyStrength": "normal"
    }
  ]
}