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title servicePrincipal: addPassword
description Add a strong password to a servicePrincipal.
ms.localizationpriority medium
author Jackson-Woods
ms.subservice entra-applications
doc_type apiPageType
ms.date 04/04/2024

servicePrincipal: addPassword

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Add a strong password or secret to a servicePrincipal object.

[!INCLUDE national-cloud-support]

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.

[!INCLUDE permissions-table]

[!INCLUDE rbac-apps-serviceprincipal-creds-apis]

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 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/v1.0/servicePrincipals/{id}/addPassword
Content-type: application/json

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

C#

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

Go

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Java

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JavaScript

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PHP

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PowerShell

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Python

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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"
}