What’s the security implication of changing the default client type from confidential to public in Azure AD?

Bac Hoang [MSFT]

From time to time, I get asked this question by a few different customers especially when they encounter the error “AADSTS7000218: The request body must contain the following parameter: ‘client_assertion’ or ‘client_secret’” when authenticating to Azure AD. The error is related to the following Default client type setting in the Authentication blade of a registered application: By default the setting is set to No (confidential client). Changing to ‘Yes’ converts…

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Receiving error AADSTS7000218: The request body must contain the following parameter: ‘client_assertion’ or ‘client_secret’

Bac Hoang [MSFT]

Problem: An application receives the following error when authenticating to Azure Active Directory: {     “error”: “invalid_client”,      “error_description”: “AADSTS7000218: The request body must contain the following parameter: ‘client_assertion’ or ‘client_secret’.\r\nTrace ID: xxx\r\nCorrelation ID: xxx\r\nTimestamp: 2019-08-18 20:38:28Z”,     “error_codes”: [7000218],     …} What does this error mean? The error is what it said.  When authenticating to Azure AD to get an access token, the client application is not providing…

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