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Managing recovery codes for your enterprise

With SAML single sign-on recovery codes, you can access your enterprise account even when your identity provider is unavailable.

Downloading your enterprise account's single sign-on recovery codes

To ensure that you can access GitHub Enterprise Cloud if your identity provider (IdP) is unavailable, you should download your enterprise account's single sign-on (SSO) recovery codes.

Accessing your enterprise account if your identity provider is unavailable

You can sign into GitHub Enterprise Cloud even if your identity provider is unavailable by bypassing single sign-on (SSO) with a recovery code.