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# SAML SSO

Workspace admins can connect an identity provider so members sign in through SAML.

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## Configure the connection

1. Open **Settings → SAML SSO → Edit SAML SSO settings**.
2. Copy the **Assertion Consumer Service URL**, **Audience URI**, and **Relay State** shown by Distro into your identity provider's application settings.
3. Enter your **SSO domain**, **IdP entity ID**, **Single sign-on URL**, and **IdP certificate** in Distro.
4. Click **Save**.
5. Test SAML sign-in with a provisioned member before requiring it for the workspace.

The SSO domain is used to find the workspace from the email address entered during SAML sign-in. Use the domain your members sign in with.

## Require SAML sign-in

Turn on **Only allow SAML login** in the **Enforce SAML SSO** section, then save that section. Members must use the identity provider instead of ordinary password sign-in. The workspace owner is exempt from the password sign-in enforcement check.

## Create users at first sign-in

**Create new users from SAML** controls **Automatic account creation**. When enabled, a new user can be created after successful SAML authentication. When disabled, users without an account are told to ask their administrator to provision one. Save this section separately from the enforcement setting.

If sign-in cannot find the workspace, check the email domain and **SSO domain**. If authentication fails after reaching the identity provider, review its application configuration and the saved IdP values.


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