Identity and access management

You can use GitHub Enterprise Server's built-in authentication, or you can centrally manage authentication and access to your instance with CAS, LDAP, or SAML.

You can view reference information about configuration of authentication for your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.

If you don't use a centralized, external system for your users' identity, you can use built-in authentication to allow GitHub Enterprise Server to manage accounts and perform local authentication.

You can centrally manage accounts and access to your GitHub Enterprise Server instance by integrating with your existing CAS identity provider (IdP).

You can centrally manage accounts and access to your GitHub Enterprise Server instance by integrating with your existing LDAP directory.

You can centrally manage accounts and access to your GitHub Enterprise Server instance with SAML single sign-on (SSO).

Learn how to provision accounts and manage organization and team membership for users on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.