With this Azure role, a person can log on to a VM with ordinary, non-admin rights, because it grants the login data action.
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Terms in this definition
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.
- Login
A server-wide security principal used for connecting to SQL Server or an Azure SQL logical server; users inside each database are linked to it. EXECUTE AS LOGIN can't be used in Azure SQL Database.
Related terms
- Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Machine Sign-in
To control RDP sign-ins with Microsoft Entra credentials to Azure Windows VMs, Conditional Access policies point at this enterprise app, which may also be named Azure Windows VM Sign-In. Anyone signing in also needs either the Virtual Machine User Login or Administrator Login role.