OnBehalfOfCredential Class

Authenticates a service principal via the on-behalf-of flow.

This flow is typically used by middle-tier services that authorize requests to other services with a delegated user identity. Because this is not an interactive authentication flow, an application using it must have admin consent for any delegated permissions before requesting tokens for them. See Microsoft Entra ID documentation for a more detailed description of the on-behalf-of flow.

Inheritance

azure.identity._internal.msal_credentials.MsalCredential

OnBehalfOfCredential

azure.identity._internal.get_token_mixin.GetTokenMixin

OnBehalfOfCredential

Constructor

OnBehalfOfCredential(tenant_id: str, client_id: str, *, client_certificate: bytes | None = None, client_secret: str | None = None, client_assertion_func: Callable[[], str] | None = None, user_assertion: str, password: bytes | str | None = None, send_certificate_chain: bool = False, **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.

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
client_secret	str Optional. A client secret to authenticate the service principal. One of client_secret, client_certificate, or client_assertion_func must be provided.
client_certificate	bytes Optional. The bytes of a certificate in PEM or PKCS12 format including the private key to authenticate the service principal. One of client_secret, client_certificate, or client_assertion_func must be provided.
client_assertion_func	Callable[[], str] Optional. Function that returns client assertions that authenticate the application to Microsoft Entra ID. This function is called each time the credential requests a token. It must return a valid assertion for the target resource.
user_assertion	str Required. The access token the credential will use as the user assertion when requesting on-behalf-of tokens.
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.
password	str or bytes A certificate password. Used only when client_certificate is provided. If this value is a unicode string, it will be encoded as UTF-8. If the certificate requires a different encoding, pass appropriately encoded bytes instead.
send_certificate_chain	bool If True when client_certificate is provided, the credential will send the public certificate chain in the x5c header of each token request's JWT. This is required for Subject Name/Issuer (SNI) authentication. Defaults to False.
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 an OnBehalfOfCredential.

   from azure.identity import OnBehalfOfCredential

   credential = OnBehalfOfCredential(
       tenant_id="<tenant_id>",
       client_id="<client_id>",
       client_secret="<client_secret>",
       user_assertion="<access_token>",
   )

Methods

close
get_token	Request an access token for scopes. This method is called automatically by Azure SDK clients.
get_token_info	Request an access token for scopes. This is an alternative to get_token to enable certain scenarios that require additional properties on the token. 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.

get_token_info

Request an access token for scopes.

This is an alternative to get_token to enable certain scenarios that require additional properties on the token. This method is called automatically by Azure SDK clients.

get_token_info(*scopes: str, options: TokenRequestOptions | None = None) -> AccessTokenInfo

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
options	TokenRequestOptions A dictionary of options for the token request. Unknown options will be ignored. Optional.

Returns

Type	Description
<xref:AccessTokenInfo>	An AccessTokenInfo instance containing information about the token.

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.