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Anonymous
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Where Power BI and Power Automate store their credential.

Where does the password and credentials of login Id of power bi and power automate gets stored?

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

The kind of approach @PijushRoy is talking about is a feature automatically provided by the browser, which is convenient, but not the way Power BI is stored internally.

 

Power BI internal storage of passwords and credentials is not plaintext, when logging into Power BI service, power bi will automatically request a token and store it in session storage.

 

Open power BI service or power automate, press F12 then find it at Application>>session storage.

vhuijieymsft_0-1709624638538.png

 

Operations related to Power BI service, such as opening reports, creating reports, etc., are authenticated against this token, not by account password.

vhuijieymsft_1-1709624638555.png

 

If they are the same, you can see the data.

vhuijieymsft_0-1709624761943.png

 

For more information, you can refer to the following documents:

Azure AD for developers (v1.0) - Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Learn

Understand the OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow in Azure AD - Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Learn

 

If you have any other questions please feel free to contact me.

 

Best Regards,
Yang
Community Support Team

 

If there is any post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution  to help the other members find it more quickly.
If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know. Thanks a lot!

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

The kind of approach @PijushRoy is talking about is a feature automatically provided by the browser, which is convenient, but not the way Power BI is stored internally.

 

Power BI internal storage of passwords and credentials is not plaintext, when logging into Power BI service, power bi will automatically request a token and store it in session storage.

 

Open power BI service or power automate, press F12 then find it at Application>>session storage.

vhuijieymsft_0-1709624638538.png

 

Operations related to Power BI service, such as opening reports, creating reports, etc., are authenticated against this token, not by account password.

vhuijieymsft_1-1709624638555.png

 

If they are the same, you can see the data.

vhuijieymsft_0-1709624761943.png

 

For more information, you can refer to the following documents:

Azure AD for developers (v1.0) - Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Learn

Understand the OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow in Azure AD - Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Learn

 

If you have any other questions please feel free to contact me.

 

Best Regards,
Yang
Community Support Team

 

If there is any post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution  to help the other members find it more quickly.
If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know. Thanks a lot!

PijushRoy
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Hi @Anonymous 

I am not sure I understood your question correctly.
It sotred in Browser password manager level
For google chrome > Setting > Password Manager (other broswer have same option)

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Let me know if that works for you


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