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Give the ability to skip or ignore SSO on an organization's public repo #9045
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How is this still a thing in 2024? I have the exact same issue. I do not want to escalate my privileges by using single sign-on for a public repo and instead want to interact with it with my personal account. It's really troublesome to open an incognito window just to access a public repo. |
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Wild that this is still happening. I'm just opening these pages in InPrivate tabs for now, a terrible workaround :( |
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I've since disconnected my personal GitHub from my work one, always fun to have two accounts for the same purpose :( |
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Expressing my frustration with this as well. It seems like a number of Microsoft employees in particular are being hit with this, given the responses in this thread. |
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gentle bump - would love a workaround for this :) |
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Update: MSFT has since gone through and done a manual disconnect for my account (not sure when it occurred, or if it's occurred for others). I am no longer running into this issue, though I do feel that GitHub should still offer users a way to manually disconnect this themselves. |
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This is not true. |
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@agg23 - apologies, to clarify, MSFT has manually disconnected my account. I'm not sure of the state of others. I'll update my reply to avoid further confusion :) |
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Bump. I am getting this on my personal system when trying to download Powershell from GitHub releases. This is ridiculous.
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How is this still a thing in 2025? |
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Can't report issues, can't download releases... and my personal (only) github account is not linked to an organization either. I am very baffled by this... what's going on? |
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This is still very much an issue, and given the GitHub documentation on SAML/SSO, I believe this should be considered a bug:
Clearly, IdP authentication cannot be bypassed, and as such is required in practice for accessing public repositories in the ways described above. It should not be. The suggestion of a link to “skip” or “View as” would work well. |
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ba-bump. |
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This is also an impediment to using GitHub integrations using AIs you don't want to authorise to see organisational repos, but should be able to see organisational repos that are public, as anyone can. Authorising an AI to use my GitHub creds can give it less access to some repos than had it never been given authorisation at all. |
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My personal github account is linked to some of my organization repos.
To sign in with my organization privileges, I need to be connected through VPN (or their SSO will reject me)
But if I am connected on my personal github and I want to see a public repo owned by my organization, it directly prompts me the SSO login page and I cannot skip it. The only way to access the page is through incognito / disconnect from my Github account.
Here is an example to be clear :
aymendje (my personal github account) is linked to the Microsoft organization (that requires 2FA / SSO)
When I try to access a page like https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases/, it forces me to sign in
But since I am on my personal device / not connected to VPN / Corpnet, my 2FA gets rejected and I am stuck in the Microsoft's SSO Error page (you are not authorized)
Ideally, we would have a button "view this page outside my organization" or simply "skip" alongside the "continue" button, and view the page without signing in to the organization.
I guess that I should have 2 github accounts, a professional one, and a work one, but its so much simpler to use only one and leverage the organizations instead !
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