Is there a way to access azure key vault without using AD authentication? - powershell

Question

I want to access the secrets in my azure key vault using my azure credentials without using Azure AD App authentication. Is there a possible way?
Thanks

Answer 1

You will need the serviceprincipal name to decry-pt the key. Hence the answer is unfortunately NO.

Answer 2

We can do it using Azure PowerShell script in C# code. For this we would require only the name of the keyvault, name of secret and Azure credentials of the user who wants to access it.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Program program = new Program();
string scriptText = "Login-AzureRmAccount";
string result = program.RunScript(scriptText);
Console.WriteLine(result);
Console.ReadLine();
}
private string RunScript(string scriptText)
{
Runspace runspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace();
runspace.Open();
Pipeline pipeline = runspace.CreatePipeline();
pipeline.Commands.AddScript(scriptText);
pipeline.Commands.AddScript("$secret = Get-AzureKeyVaultSecret -VaultName '[Name_of_keyVault]' -Name '[Name_of_secret]'");
pipeline.Commands.AddScript("Write $secret.SecretValueText");
Collection<PSObject> results = pipeline.Invoke();
runspace.Close();
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (PSObject obj in results)
{
stringBuilder.AppendLine(obj.ToString());
}
return stringBuilder.ToString();
}
Actually, i wanted to access key vault without AD application authentication. This was the only way i could think of.