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Understanding IAM for enterprises

You can invite existing personal accounts on GitHub.com to be members of your enterprise, and you can optionally enable SAML single sign-on (SSO) to centrally manage access. Alternatively, you can use Enterprise Managed Users with SAML SSO to create and control the accounts of your enterprise members.

About SAML for enterprise IAM

You can use SAML single sign-on (SSO) to centrally manage access to organizations owned by your enterprise on GitHub.com.

Abilities and restrictions of managed user accounts

Learn what users can and cannot do if you manage accounts from an identity provider (IdP).

Getting started with Enterprise Managed Users

Learn how to create and configure an enterprise with managed users.

Troubleshooting identity and access management for your enterprise

Review common issues and solutions for identity and access management for your enterprise.