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by KajMagnus 2015 days ago
OpenID Connect, like others mention, but there's more in life, than only SSO? Organizations also want to automatically deactivate of user accounts?

There's something called SCIM, "System for Cross-domain Identity Management", that does this, and which you can use together with OpenID Connect (OIDC).

SCIM can automatically deactivate a user account, if the person leaves the organization or moves to a different department. And can auto add and remove him/her to/from various user groups.

But with SAML, managers / admins still need to micro manage the user accounts, e.g. place the user in the correct group, if s/he gets a new job role. SAML only syncs user accounts upon login, from what I've understood. (So if the user stays logged in, then, with SAML, his/her account permissions can get out-of-date?)

SCIM: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/app-...

Azure AD uses this, and Okta, OneLogin, Github and some others too I suppose.

If anyone has tried SCIM it'd be interesting to hear what you think about it? (I've just read about it)