How to validate azure active directory user credentials?

Question

I have a set of users in azure active directory; in my program I will collect the user name and password of an end user, and want to check against windows azure active directory.

Is it possible? Please provide some reference.

I know we can validate using Power-shell cmdlets; I want to know if there is any other way to validate user credentials.

Answer 1

In case someone is still looking for an answer. Support for authenticating user without opening a new window for user cred was added in ADAL version 2.7.10707.1513-rc through providing an object of class UserCredential to an overloaded function of AcquireToken.

public AuthenticationResult AcquireToken(string resource, string clientId, UserCredential userCredential);

Here is a sample code for powershell. $UserCred = new-object Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.UserCredential("****@*****", "*****") $result = $AuthContext.AcquireToken($resource,$clientID,$UserCred)

Answer 2

Ah, I think, you're trying to implement a SSO scenario. Try Adding Sign-On to Your Web Application Using Windows Azure AD! And if your customer does not have an Azure subscription, this Multi-Tenant Cloud Application for Windows Azure Active Directory sample describes the details with using Azure Active Directory Authentication Library. Hope this helps.