Getting around Oauth2

[Kassii]

Hi guys.

Just wondering if anyone can give me a hand and answer this query

Is it possible to have the credentials for Oauth2 hard coded in as opposed to when I request the access token and have to enter them?

Or is there a way to make dashboards and reports 100% public so that all that is required is to just load the webpage (so to speak) and the iFrames will be present with data

Any help would be great guys 🙂

[Eric_Zhang]

@Kassii

Technically it is possible. You can get a token from the API POST https://login.windows.net/common/oauth2/token with GRANT_TYPE=password

POST /common/oauth2/token HTTP/1.1
Host: login.windows.net
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: 14968174-d130-31dd-7dac-f78c06844286

client_secret=zmZ%2BC1nx3SXgrBzVOce%2BPb4T6uxrpnmmDPHahzPUhE4%3D&client_id=30d8120d-52c9-40f1-ac3b-d0c6720f0f20&grant_type=password&resource=https%3A%2F%2Fanalysis.windows.net%2Fpowerbi%2Fapi&username=YOURUSERNAME%40microsoft.com&password=YOURPASSWORD

Then keep getting access token via the refresh_token in above response. 

However I doubt this would violate the license compliance as all people would aceess the restricted reports/dashoboard  with the same credential.

For public sharing, you can consider "Publish to web" or Power BI Embedded which have no user licenses at all.