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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 identity and access management

Administrators for GitHub Enterprise Cloud must decide how users will access the enterprise's resources on GitHub.com.

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.

About Enterprise Managed Users

Learn how your enterprise can manage the lifecycle and authentication of users on GitHub from your identity provider (IdP).

Abilities and restrictions of managed user accounts

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

Choosing an enterprise type for GitHub Enterprise Cloud

Decide whether Enterprise Managed Users is right for your enterprise by asking yourself some questions.

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.