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jdballard30
Helper II
6 years ago

Credentials Used to Connect

Is there a way in the Power BI service to see which credentials are being used for a dataset? I know that I can go to the Datasets tab and see my datasets, and under there I see "Data source credenti...
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jdballard30
Helper II
6 years ago

Thx for the reply.

 

I figured it was for security. Not showing the password is obvious, but I think a case can be made for at least letting some users see the name of the data source.

 

As for the APIs, it looks like that is for gateway data sources, and I'm not using a gateway since everything is cloud-based.

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Icey
Community Support
6 years ago

Hi jdballard30 ,

 

I have tested the API. It also works with datasets not using gateway.

For a sharepoint data source:

 

Of course, you can try the new API instead:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/getdatasources;

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/getdatasourcesingroup.

 

 

 

Best Regards,

Icey

 

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    jdballard30
    Helper II
    6 years ago

    Thanks for the follow-up! I was able to use the "Try It" button in the documentation and get a succcessful 200 response. Unfortunately, it still doesn't tell me the user account being used to access the data. I understand the security reason of NOT returning the user account, but I can also see an argument to return the account/username being used (but definitely not the password).