diff --git a/content/departments/engineering/teams/core-services/sams/index.md b/content/departments/engineering/teams/core-services/sams/index.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8c97ed0d7e69 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/departments/engineering/teams/core-services/sams/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +# Sourcegraph Accounts Managment System (SAMS) + +[Sourcegraph Accounts Managment System (SAMS)](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16F6uvfM9EknpcuAQQ8kIPOZ9gHo0Lx4lgprw_5sWJEs/edit) is the centralized accounts system for all of the Sourcegraph-operated systems, it provides: + +- Single Sign-On (SSO) experience for users of those systems, and cross-system referenceable user ID. +- Out-of-the-box machine-to-machine authentication and authorization capabilities. + +It is compliant with [OAuth 2](https://oauth.net/2/) and [OIDC](https://openid.net/) protocols but only exposes a subset of the full capabilities for security reasons.