Managing recovery codes for your enterprise
With SAML single sign-on recovery codes, you can access your enterprise account even when your identity provider is unavailable.
Downloading your enterprise account's single sign-on recovery codes
To ensure that you can access GitHub Enterprise Cloud if your identity provider (IdP) is unavailable, you should download your enterprise account's single sign-on (SSO) recovery codes.
Accessing your enterprise account if your identity provider is unavailable
You can sign into GitHub Enterprise Cloud even if your identity provider is unavailable by bypassing single sign-on (SSO) with a recovery code.