List passwordMethods

2025-08-02

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve a list of the passwords registered to a user, represented by a passwordAuthenticationMethod object. This API returns exactly one object referenced by ID 28c10230-6103-485e-b985-444c60001490, as a user can have exactly one password. For security, the password itself is never 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

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)	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts where the signed-in user is acting on another user, they must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

Global Reader
Authentication Administrator
Privileged Authentication Administrator

Admins with User Administrator, Helpdesk Administrator, or Password Administrator roles can also retrieve password authentication methods 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.

Note

Calling the /me endpoint requires a signed-in user and therefore a delegated permission. Application permissions aren't supported when using the /me endpoint.

GET /me/authentication/passwordMethods

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

Note

When calling the /users/{id} endpoint with {id} representing the signed-in user, the least privileged delegated permissions are UserAuthenticationMethod.Read for read operations and UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite for write operations.

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

Optional query parameters

Not supported.

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.

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


// 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.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

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


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
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.


// 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.


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
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.


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.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

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
        }
    ]
}

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Optional query parameters

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Response

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