powershell - How to Login without prompt?

Question

I tried following commands to get a noprompt faster login experience but each time i find login popup. I even tried using the certificate initially but since that didn't prove working, attempting with tenant id. Any help or suggestion on how to have seamless and faster login instead of interactive.

Login-AzureRmAccount -SubscriptionId 1238154XXXXfd-1c4121796e58 -TenantId 754XXXXXXXXXXX5d10d8XXX

Add-AzureRmAccount -Tenant "754XXXXXXXXXXX5d10d8XXX" -SubscriptionId "1238154XXXXfd-1c4121796e58"

Login-AzureRmAccount -TenantId 754XXXXXXXXXXX5d10d8XXX

Or, is it that I have to go via interactive login prompt always. Request pointers and thank in advance for consideration and time.

Answer 1

You can use -Credential parameter, and DPAPI to login.

First, run the following PowerShell once to store a secured password for your account.

Read-Host "Enter Password" -AsSecureString | ConvertTo-SecureString `
-AsPlainText -Force | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Out-File "C:Password.txt"

And then, you can use the following script to login.

# The azure account here must not be a Live ID.
$username = "<your Azure account>"
$SecurePassword = Get-Content "C:Password.txt" | ConvertTo-SecureString
$cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential `
     -argumentlist $username, $SecurePassword

Login-AzureRmAccount -Credential $cred

An other way would be using Service Principal. First, you should follow the article to create a Service Principal

And then, use the following script to login.

$clientID = "<the client id of your AD Application>"
$key = "<the key of your AD Application>"
$SecurePassword = $key | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential `
     -argumentlist $clientID, $SecurePassword
$tenantID = "<the tenant id of your subscription>"

Add-AzureRmAccount -Credential $cred -TenantId $tenantID -ServicePrincipal