dirkjanm/askWAM
Ask the Web Account Manager (WAM) for Entra ID tokens
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askWAM requests Microsoft Entra access tokens silently through Windows Web Account Manager (WAM). It ships as a .NET Framework client, a standalone native x64 client, and an x64 Beacon Object File with a CNA command adapter. All frontends can enumerate accounts visible to the client and target an identity by its opaque WAM account ID or exact username. They never fall back to interactive authentication. Tokens requested via this flow will inherit the following details: This way of requesting tokens also works when Token Protection is enforced. CAE tokens can be requested with the --cae flag. 1fec8e78-bce4-4aaf-ab1b-5451cc387264 The default Graph scope is selected only when neither --scope nor --resource is supplied. Scope mode accepts one or more v2 scopes. It appends openid offlineaccess profile and sets WAM's wamcompat=2.0 request property. Resource mode implements WAM's v1-compatible flow. It sends an empty scope, sets the WAM resource request property, and does not…
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- Defaults
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- Accounts and claims
- .NET Framework client
- Standalone native client
- Beacon Object File
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Ask the Web Account Manager (WAM) for Entra ID tokens
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- dirkjanm
- Primary language
- C
- Stars
- 125
- Forks
- 15
- Open issues + pull requests
- 1
- License
- MIT
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- Created
- 2026-09-11T15:06:19.000Z
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- 2026-09-11T15:25:39.000Z
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