List passwordMethods

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve a list of the passwords registered to a user, represented by a passwordAuthenticationMethod object. This API returns exactly one object, as a user can have exactly one password. For security, the password itself will never be returned in the object and the password property is always null.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permissions acting on self

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.

Permissions acting on other users

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All

For delegated scenarios, the administrator needs at least one of the following Microsoft Entra roles.

• Global Reader
• Authentication Administrator
• Privileged Authentication Administrator

Admins with User Administrator, Helpdesk Administrator, or Password Administrator roles can also reset passwords for non-admin users and a limited set of admin roles as defined in Who can reset passwords.

HTTP request

Get details of your own password authentication method.

GET /me/authentication/passwordMethods

Get details of your own or another user's password authentication method.

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

Optional query parameters

This method doesn't 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 passwordAuthenticationMethod objects in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

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

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.PasswordMethods.GetAsync();

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users authentication password-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

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



passwordMethods, err := graphClient.Me().Authentication().PasswordMethods().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);

PasswordAuthenticationMethodCollectionResponse result = graphClient.me().authentication().passwordMethods().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 passwordMethods = await client.api('/me/authentication/passwordMethods')
	.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()->passwordMethods()->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-MgUserAuthenticationPasswordMethod -UserId $userId

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


result = await graph_client.me.authentication.password_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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users('67273bfa-5cd8-477a-acf7-e13ff81ebf70')/authentication/passwordMethods",
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "28c10230-6103-485e-b985-444c60001490",
            "password": null,
            "createdDateTime": null
        }
    ]
}