Azure-cli: How to grant extra permissions with az ad app update

[tumluliu]

First of all, is it possible to do this with this command? If yes, how to do that, e.g. if I want to grant Windows Active Directory -> Read Directory Data permission to a specific App? Thanks!

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• Content: az ad app
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[yugangw-msft]

Not a very smooth experience, but you can do it though az ad app update by providing the manifest artifacts

[yugangw-msft]

okay, i will expose az ad app permission add to get it simpler.
Please note, in the latest release, you will see "az ad app permission grant" which does the same thing of the grant permissions button in the portal. The new add command will default to grant unless you opt out with the flag of --no-grant

[tumluliu]

that would be much better! Many thanks @yugangw-msft !

[tumluliu]

@yugangw-msft could you disclose which version of az cli will contain this feature? For now, it's not available yet in 2.0.49

[yugangw-msft]

The plan is to get it done for the upcoming release. When the change gets committed, this issue will be closed.

[paolosalvatori]

Hi @yugangw-msft, I have a couple of related questions: it looks like when running:

az ad app permission grant --id $appId --api 00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000

none of the permissions at scope and role level that I added to my app registration / service principal using the az ad app permission add command get granted. Looking at the documentation, it says that the scope defaults to user_impersionation. So I explicitly specified scopes:

az ad app permission grant \
--id $aksServerApplicationAppId \
--api 00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000 \
--scope User.Read,Directory.Read.All
--expires never 1> /dev/null

and it worked. Said that, this mechanism works for application permissions, but I have no idea of how to grant delegated permissions. The documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/ad/app/permission?view=azure-cli-latest#az-ad-app-permission-grant does not explain how if the command works for both delegated and application permissions and how to properly use the scope parameter.

In addition, above you said :

"The new add command will default to grant unless you opt out with the flag of --no-grant."

Is this feature already available? If yes, starting from which version? Thanks!

[yugangw-msft]

@paolosalvatori, PR was merged, please use az ap app permission admin-consent