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VerifiedAccepting 3rd Party Identity in Salesforce

Universal Containers (UC) has implemented SAML-based single sign-on for its Salesforce application. UC uses PingFederate as the identity provider. To access Salesforce, users typically go to a bookmarked My Domain URL.

What type of single sign-on flow is this?

Explanation

A user who opens a Salesforce My Domain URL starts at the service provider. Salesforce initiates the SAML process by sending an authentication request to PingFederate, the identity provider; this is a service provider–initiated SAML flow.

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