ADAL .Net Core nuget package does not support UserPasswordCredential

Question

In ADAL.Net 3.x UserPasswordCredential is introduced on top of UserCredential from 2.x. But the same UserPasswordCredential is not exposed in the .Net Core under the same nuget package?

UserCredential class has only one property UserName

namespace Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory
{
    //
    // Summary:
    //     Credential used for integrated authentication on domain-joined machines.
    public class UserCredential
    {
        //
        // Summary:
        //     Constructor to create user credential. Using this constructor would imply integrated
        //     authentication with logged in user and it can only be used in domain joined scenarios.
        public UserCredential();
        //
        // Summary:
        //     Constructor to create credential with client id and secret
        //
        // Parameters:
        //   userName:
        //     Identifier of the user application requests token on behalf.
        public UserCredential(string userName);

        //
        // Summary:
        //     Gets identifier of the user.
        public string UserName { get; }
    }
}

Since UserPasswordCredential is not available in .NetCore and UserCredential takes only one parameter username, how to input the password of the user and implement below code in .Net Core?

authContext.AcquireTokenAsync(WebAPIResourceId, ClientId, userPasswordCredential);

I am using ADAL 3.13.4 version specifically in .Net Core 1.0 version

Answer 1

To use the resource owner password credentials grant flow to get the access token for Azure AD, we can call the http request diectly using the HttpClient. Here is an example for your reference :

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
string tokenEndpoint = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenantId}/oauth2/token";
var body = "resource={resourceUrl}&client_id={clientId}&grant_type=password&username={userName}&password={password}";
var stringContent = new StringContent(body, Encoding.UTF8, "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

var result=await client.PostAsync(tokenEndpoint, stringContent).ContinueWith<string>((response) =>
{
    return response.Result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
});

JObject jobject = JObject.Parse(result);

var token = jobject["access_token"].Value<string>();