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by subway 3309 days ago
Kinda-sorta, in the same way a password manager is. It allows one strong password/2fa vs many likely weaker passwords.

In reality OneLogin is typically using a federated login protocol like SAML or OIDC to grant access to third-party services. This means it can also be used to immediately revoke access, without having to reach out to and reconfigure various services.

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For SAML at least if the identity provider is compromised, meaning I can now issue tokens using it's certificate, each service will need to be provided with a new certificate. That requires 'reach out' to each service,
Yup - we had to reconfigure each service that uses SAML today.

Also don't forget having to audit each service's API keys/tokens/local users etc to make sure someone hasn't gotten access via a compromised certificate and then created a sneaky API key for them to use in the future.

Basically we had to assume every app had been compromised and rotate every internal key/certificate the was in each one, as well as reconfigure them with a new SAML certificate.

In cases where OneLogin provisioned third-party accounts for sites that didn't support SAML, they (at least used to) sync your OneLogin password to these third parties. It did not use unique per-site passwords.

If your OneLogin password was "pass123", so was the password for your OneLogin-managed accounts at Google, Salesforce, and so on. I believe but am not certain that this was even the case for some sites that used SAML but required passwords for non-HTTP access. Mail clients accessing Gmail is an example.

I do not know if this is still the case. I suspect it would not be difficult to check.