Service principal authentication

Azure Data Lake Store uses Azure Active Directory for authentication. Before authoring an application that works with Azure Data Lake Store, you must decide how to authenticate your application with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). The two main options available are:

  • End-user authentication
  • Service-to-service authentication

Both these options result in your application being provided with an OAuth 2.0 token, which gets attached to each request made to Azure Data Lake Store.

We have created the end-user authentication method by following this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-create-service-principal-portal. The user creating it should be configured as the owner ...

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