Logging in with Group SSO

An option for Overleaf Group Professional subscriptions

This page is for members of an Overleaf Group Professional subscription, where your group administrator has enabled single sign-on (SSO) as a login option. It describes how to link your Overleaf account to your group single-sign on identity and use it to log in to your Overleaf account.

For now, only group members (not managers) can use SSO. Additionally, you must first create your Overleaf account and set an Overleaf-specific password before you can link your account to SSO. Just-in-time (JIT) provisioning from SSO login is not available for group SSO.

Linking your Overleaf account and SSO identity

If you’re a member of a group (on a Group Professional plan) with single sign-on enabled, you will receive an email inviting you to set up SSO for your Overleaf account.

Clicking on the button in the email you received will start the linking process for you. If you have trouble using the button, you can paste the URL from the email into the address bar of your browser.

Following the steps that are presented to you will bring you to your identity provider login. After logging in for the first time, you will then be able to login with SSO.

Logging in to your Overleaf account

Once you’ve linked your Overleaf account to your single sign-on identity, you can log in to your Overleaf account using single sign-on.

Go to the Overleaf SSO login and enter your email address. This will redirect you to your group's single sign-on page. After successful authentication, you will then be directed to your Overleaf project home page.

SSO login page

Unlinking group SSO

Your administrator may turn off SSO temporarily. This will suspend your ability to login with SSO and may, in some cases, mean you need to relink your Overleaf account to your SSO identity in order to login with SSO again.