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Authentication

    • Authentication to GitHub
    • Create a strong password
    • Switching between accounts
    • Verifying devices on sign in
    • Update access credentials
    • Manage personal access tokens
    • Reviewing your SSH keys
    • Deploy keys
    • Token expiration
    • Revoke your credentials
    • Review security log
    • Security log events
    • Remove sensitive data
    • About anonymized URLs
    • GitHub's IP addresses
    • SSH key fingerprints
    • Sudo mode
    • Unauthorized access
    • Viewing and managing sessions
    • About 2FA
    • About mandatory 2FA
    • Configure 2FA
    • Configure 2FA recovery
    • Access GitHub with 2FA
    • Countries supporting SMS
    • Change 2FA method
    • Troubleshooting 2FA
    • Recover an account with 2FA
    • Disable 2FA
    • About passkeys
    • Manage your passkeys
    • Sign in with a passkey
    • Authenticate as a managed user
    • Single sign-on
    • SSH Key with SSO
    • Personal access token with SSO
    • Apps and SSO
    • Active SSO sessions
    • About SSH
    • Check for existing SSH key
    • Generate new SSH key
    • Add a new SSH key
    • Test your SSH connection
    • SSH key passphrases
    • SSH agent forwarding
    • Managing deploy keys
    • Use SSH over HTTPS port
    • Recover SSH key passphrase
    • Deleted or missing SSH keys
    • Error: Host key verification failed
    • Permission denied (publickey)
    • Error: Bad file number
    • Error: Key already in use
    • Permission denied other-user
    • Permission denied other-repo
    • Agent failure to sign
    • ssh-add "illegal option" error
    • SSL certificate problem
    • Error: Unknown key type
    • SSH key audit
    • Commit signature verification
    • Existing GPG keys
    • Generating a new GPG key
    • Add a GPG key
    • Tell Git about your signing key
    • Associate email with GPG key
    • Signing commits
    • Signing tags
    • Displaying verification for all commits
    • Check verification status
    • Use verified email in GPG key
  • Authentication/
  • Authenticate with SSO

Authenticating with single sign-on

You can authenticate to GitHub with single sign-on (SSO) and view your active sessions.

  • Authenticating with Enterprise Managed Users, 1 of 6
  • About authentication with single sign-on, 2 of 6
  • Authorizing an SSH key for use with single sign-on, 3 of 6
  • Authorizing a personal access token for use with single sign-on, 4 of 6
  • Authorizing an app for single sign-on, 5 of 6
  • Viewing and managing your active SSO sessions, 6 of 6

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