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Can we activate Google Authentication for future employees with their private email address?

  • 24 June 2021
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Hi there, 

 

I may have question/suggestion related to this topic:

 

Like Amei, we create employee profiles with their personal email addresses at first stage, so they can log in, fill in their information and easily share document with us, before onboarding date. 

→ If I invite employees with their personal email address, it means I can’t enable google authentification for other employees. As these future employees don’t have a google professional address yet, they can’t log in. Am I correct? 

I’ve never activated the Google authentification because of that, but maybe I’m wrong? 

 

Thanks a lot for your help. 

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Best answer by Daniele will be back in June 29 June 2021, 15:28

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Hello @mariecharuit,
Welcome to the Personio Community, and Thank You for reaching out with your question 😊

It is actually possible to use the Google SSO (Single Sign-on) with the private mail address of an employee, but only if that private email address is a google account. 

With Google SSO enabled, Personio users can simply log into their Personio via their Google account instead of their standard Email and Password login data.

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If the future employee does not have a google address as their private email, they won’t be able to log in to Personio with the Google Authenticator.

FYI: There are other alternative ways to integrate an Authentification Provider in Personio - you can find out about them here.

I hope this helps!

Do you think you will be able to activate Google SSO or rather not?

Looking forward to your reply!

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Daniele

I am currently on leave in April and May and will be back in June 2024. Please tag my colleague @Lucie B instead.
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Hi Daniele, 

 

Thanks a lot for your reply.

 

Not sure to understand : if a future employee does not have a Google email address, is there another way for him/her to login as s.he can’t use SSO?

 

If yes, we will use SSO, if not, we won’t be able to use it as all our futures employees don’t have a Gmail address and we need them to log in before they have their professional email address. 

 

Thanks a lot. 

 

Best, 
Marie

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Hi @mariecharuit,

Google SSO

The simple, out-of-the-box integration with Google cannot be set as optional. If it’s active, it is only possible to log in with the Google Authentication.

OAuth 2.0

However, there is an alternative way to allow Google Authentication + normal login by manually setting up OAuth 2.0 with your Google account. It takes more steps than setting up Google SSO. This article explains how to do it.

Using OAuth 2.0 makes it possible to either allow the login via Google OAuth for all employees or to use the regular login (see screenshot + Help Center Article).

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If I understand your situation correctly, this would be a possible solution for you.

Workaround

A simpler method would be to directly create a professional (google-hosted) email address for the employees in the Onboarding phase and forward them the email address once the contract has been signed. However, this probably wouldn’t be a solution for you since you stated that you “need them to log in to Personio before they have their professional email address”.

 

I hope this helps! Are you planning to set up OAuth 2.0?

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Daniele

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Hi Daniele, 

 

Thanks a lot for your reply and explanations. We would love to use it but we need to upgrade to Enterprise plan to access OAuth 2.0. So I guess this won’t be possible… 

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Hi @mariecharuit,
I’m sorry to hear that you won’t be able to implement this with your current account.

If you have any other questions or ideas, feel free to create a new topic here 😊

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Daniele

I am currently on leave in April and May and will be back in June 2024. Please tag my colleague @Lucie B instead.

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