PublicClientApplication.OperatingSystemAccount equivalent for msal4j-brokers

[flowchart87]

Hi,

according to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/scenario-desktop-acquire-token-wam

There should be the possibibility to sign-in with the user currently logged in Windows.

in MSAL.NET this can be easily achieved through this:

PublicClientApplication.OperatingSystemAccount

Is there anyhow the possibility to do the same through MSAL4J-brokers ?

[Avery-Dunn]

Hello @flowchart87 : You can check this page for more information on using that package: https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-java/wiki/Using-Web-Account-Manager-with-MSAL-Java

For normal MSAL Java, the acquireTokenSilently call will just try to retrieve a token from the cache. When the broker is enabled using the MSALRuntimeBroker from that msal4j-brokers package, acquireTokenSilently behaves a bit differently:

• It will try to retrieve a token from a WAM-related cache instead of MSAL Java's normal cache
• If there's is no cached token, it will try to perform a silent login+token call using the default operating system user

In short, when using a broker acquireTokenSilently encompasses all silent auth options, including using the OS account