# Single sign-on user experience challenges and integration approaches

DevFeed: [Single sign-on user experience challenges and integration approaches](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-sso-sucks-and-the-future-of-sso-29969.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/why-sso-sucks/>)

Author: ben@goteleport.com (Ben Arent)

Published: 2022-03-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Single sign-on (SSO)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sso.md>), [User experience (UX)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ux.md>), [identity and access management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/identity-and-access-management.md>), [OpenID connect (OIDC)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/oidc.md>), [saml](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/saml.md>), [okta](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/okta.md>), [Terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terraform.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [identity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity.md>), [identity-and-access-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity-and-access-management.md>), [oidc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/oidc.md>), [okta](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/okta.md>), [saml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saml.md>), [sso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sso.md>), [terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/terraform.md>), [ux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ux.md>)

## AI overview

This article examines user-experience problems with single sign-on, including repeated authentication prompts and redirect flows. It explains how application architectures and integrations using SAML or OIDC make a standardized sign-on experience difficult, and discusses identity-provider, access-control, and automation practices.

## Source excerpt

A deep dive into the UX of current single sign-on and an overview of possible solutions.