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<\/a>SSO Overview<\/h2>\n

Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism of access control that can be applied on multiple related, but independent software systems. With this mechanism, a user logs in once and gains access to multiple systems without being prompted to log in again for each individual application. Conversely, single sign-off is a property mechanism whereby a single action of signing out terminates access to multiple software systems.<\/p>\n

As different applications and resources support different authentication mechanisms, single sign-on internally translates to and stores different credentials, compared to what is used for initial authentication.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Benefits<\/h2>\n

SSO has several general benefits, to include the following:<\/p>\n