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Admin Login Using an IdP Provider

What

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When/Why

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How

In bothFileWave Central or FileWave Anywhere, select the Anywhere and Central admins, you just have to click a button toIdP login option shown on the login screen.

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FileWave then prompts for the IdP sign-in details.

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Signing out of FileWave only ends the FileWave session. If the browser still has an active IdP session, the next FileWave login may authenticate automatically. Sign out of the IdP in the alternatebrowser manner:

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Logging in and out with an IdP isn't the same in the web admin as a "local" account.  If you have other sessions open with your IDP credentials, you'll find that you authenticate straight through.  And, "logout" of the FileWave Admin does not log you out of other IdP related web sessions.  completely.