# SSO for College Account

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**Category:** SSO\
**Created:** [1. August 2016 um 23:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-for-college-account/48087 "2016-08-01T23:05:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [8. August 2016 um 03:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-for-college-account/48087/7 "2016-08-08T03:21:33Z")

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Every SSO solution I can think of requres some sort of shared secret or other credential to authenticate the portion of the communication between the SSO provider and consumer. So I’m pretty sure you’ll need _some_ sort of cooperation with the college, although if they’re doing SAML correctly, issuing such a credential should not be an undue burden on them (in fact, they should be doing it all over the place already, so one more shouldn’t hurt).

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