{"id":5304,"date":"2019-04-18T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jumpcloud.com\/blog\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2024-11-14T18:06:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T23:06:57","slug":"macos-authentication-g-suite-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/macos-authentication-g-suite-identities","title":{"rendered":"MacOS Authentication Using G Suite Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More organizations than ever are using G Suite. In fact, Google announced that it finished 2018 with <\/span>5 million<\/span><\/a> paying customers. When you combine that with the fact that G Suite for Education has upwards of <\/span>70 million<\/span><\/a> users, it\u2019s easy to see how extending G Suite credentials to a wider range of IT resources could be useful. After all, G Suite isn\u2019t the only IT resource on modern IT networks. In fact, Mac systems are commonly used with G Suite environments. Thus, IT admins are wondering how they can take advantage of macOS authentication using G Suite identities. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For IT admins and organizations that are looking to leverage G Suite identities for authentication into macOS systems, that functionality is not available \u201cout-of-the-box\u201d so to speak from either Google or Apple. But, if you were to leverage a complementary solution to G Suite, called <\/span>探花大神<\/span><\/a>, your G Suite identities can end up actually being your universal identities. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"探花大神\"\n <\/div>\n
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\n 探花大神 MDM <\/p>\n

\n Manage All Devices in One Platform <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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An easy way to conceptualize this problem is to think of G Suite as the replacement for Microsoft Exchange, Windows file server, and Office. And then, Directory-as-a-Service becomes the replacement for Microsoft Active Directory. When you make this switch to the cloud and cloud resources with G Suite and 探花大神, you ensure your employees have a single password for all of their IT resources via <\/span>True Single Sign-On\u2122<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, before we get too far into the possibilities enabled with the switch to G Suite and 探花大神, let\u2019s talk about some limitations of trying to perform this integration without 探花大神. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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