Failure to retreive obecjts (users and groups) with MSI authentication

[gitmaximd]

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Terraform (and AzureAD Provider) Version

Terraform v0.12.29

• provider.azuread v1.0.0

Affected Resource(s)

• azuread_group
• azuread_user

Terraform Configuration Files

provider "azuread" {
  use_msi = true
}

data "azuread_group" "aks_rbac" {
  name = "AKSAdmins"
}

data "azuread_user" "example" {
  user_principal_name = "[email protected]"
}

output "oid" {
  value = data.azuread_user.example.object_id
}

output "id" {
  value = data.azuread_group.aks_rbac.id
}

Debug Output

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/gitmaximd/dff9087b41dd82b0c6c60c18f2880481/raw/25adc49c57825023efe1e7007c8a47292d5c4260/gistfile1.txt

Panic Output

Expected Behavior

Successfully retrieve user or group object information

Actual Behavior

While using MSI for authentication the data resource fails to retrieve the information. Same code works with SP authentication.

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

Important Factoids

I noticed that the request URL is incorrectly constructed and is missing Tenant domain name. For example:
https://graph.windows.net//groups?%24filter=displayName+eq+%27AKSAdmins%27&api-version=1.6
It should be like this one: https://graph.windows.net/domain.com/groups?%24filter=displayName+eq+%27AKSAdmins%27&api-version=1.6

References

• #0000

[manicminer]

Hi @gitmaximd, thanks for raising this issue! When using MSI authentication, you do also need to specify the tenant ID, either using the tenant_id argument in the provider block, or via the ARM_TENANT_ID environment variable. It's not possible for us to auto-determine the tenant from the MSI endpoint response.

Our documentation could be clearer about this, so I'm going to mark this issue as a documentation bug so that we can address this and make it clearer how you should configure the provider. We can also improve our validation so the provider doesn't attempt to proceed with an incomplete configuration.

[manicminer]

We have added clarification to our documentation for authentication using a managed identity, that a tenant ID is always required. I believe this will resolve this issue, and so I'm going to close it for now. Please comment further if you continue to see this error after adding a tenant ID to your configuration and we'll be happy to reopen. Thanks!

[ghost]

This has been released in version 1.1.0 of the provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading. As an example:

provider "azuread" {
    version = "~> 1.1.0"
}
# ... other configuration ...

[ghost]

I'm going to lock this issue because it has been closed for 30 days ⏳. This helps our maintainers find and focus on the active issues.

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