# SSO Confusion for Users with Impersonate options on origin platform

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-confusion-for-users-with-impersonate-options-on-origin-platform/62894>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [May 17, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-confusion-for-users-with-impersonate-options-on-origin-platform/62894 "2017-05-17T17:29:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-confusion-for-users-with-impersonate-options-on-origin-platform/62894/2 "2017-05-17T18:06:27Z")

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Do you have some sort of way of telling in the origin that a user is “impersonated” vs “really the user”?

If so the simplest thing here is to just have your SSO endpoint explode for impersonated cases.

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