servicePrincipal: addPassword

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Add a strong password or secret to a servicePrincipal object.

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

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

HTTP request

You can address the service principal using either its id or appId. id and appId are referred to as the Object ID and Application (Client) ID, respectively, in app registrations in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

POST /servicePrincipals/{id}/addPassword
POST /servicePrincipals(appId='{appId}')/addPassword

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide an empty passwordCredential object or with the following optional properties.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	Friendly name for the password. Optional.
endDateTime	DateTimeOffset	The date and time at which the password expires represented using ISO 8601 format and is always in UTC time. For example, midnight UTC on Jan 1, 2014 is 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z. Optional. The default value is "startDateTime + 2 years".
startDateTime	DateTimeOffset	The date and time at which the password becomes valid. The Timestamp type represents date and time information using ISO 8601 format and is always in UTC time. For example, midnight UTC on Jan 1, 2014 is 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z. Optional. The default value is "now".

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a new passwordCredential object in the response body. The secretText property in the response object contains the strong passwords or secrets generated by Microsoft Entra ID that are 16-64 characters in length. There is no way to retrieve this password in the future.

Examples

The following example shows how to call this API.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/servicePrincipals/{id}/addPassword
Content-type: application/json

{
  "passwordCredential": {
    "displayName": "Password friendly name"
  }
}

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const addPassword = {
  passwordCredential: {
    displayName: 'Password friendly name'
  }
};

await client.api('/servicePrincipals/{id}/addPassword')
	.version('beta')
	.post(addPassword);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

{
    "customKeyIdentifier": null,
    "endDateTime": "2021-09-09T19:50:29.3086381Z",
    "keyId": "f0b0b335-1d71-4883-8f98-567911bfdca6",
    "startDateTime": "2019-09-09T19:50:29.3086381Z",
    "secretText": "[6gyXA5S20@MN+WRXAJ]I-TO7g1:h2P8",
    "hint": "[6g",
    "displayName": "Password friendly name"
}