can admin see the type of a person's account (Canvas native, various SSO, etc.)?
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Hi,
Can I as a Canvas admin see whether a given Person's login account is based on Canvas native authentication, versus MS Entra, Google, or some other SSO/SAML source/IDP? Just browsing around in the Persons page I am not seeing anything obvious...
thanks!
Martin
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Hi @MartinHerbener,
A person's account isn't really "based on" a particular type of authentication, unless the login is specifically associated with a particular provider when the account is created via SIS (as shown by the "authentication_provider_id" value under users.csv in https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.sis_csv.html).
If the login is associated with a specific authentication provider, you will be able to see that information in the Provisioning Report (Settings > Reports), but not via the GUI.
However, if the login is not associated with a specific auth provider, then the user can login using any of the authentication providers, as long as they have working credentials in that auth provider, and the login_id that the auth provider passes on to Canvas after the user has successfully authenticated matched the Canvas login_id.
