Commit b3ba3996 authored by Douwe Maan's avatar Douwe Maan

Merge branch 'patch-30' into 'master'

Clarify the language around External Group membership with SAML SSO to clarify…

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!15042
parents b0c419f9 acfa9090
......@@ -132,14 +132,17 @@ On the sign in page there should now be a SAML button below the regular sign in
Click the icon to begin the authentication process. If everything goes well the user
will be returned to GitLab and will be signed in.
## External Groups
## Marking Users as External based on SAML Groups
>**Note:**
This setting is only available on GitLab 8.7 and above.
SAML login includes support for external groups. You can define in the SAML
settings which groups, to which your users belong in your IdP, you wish to be
marked as [external](../user/permissions.md).
SAML login includes support for automatically identifying whether a user should
be considered an [external](../user/permissions.md) user based on the user's group
membership in the SAML identity provider. This feature **does not** allow you to
automatically add users to GitLab [Groups](../user/group/index.md), it simply
allows you to mark users as External if they are members of certain groups in the
Identity Provider.
### Requirements
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