Web browser settings required by SSO

 

The Single Sign On (SSO) service requires that the following two options are enabled in your browser:

  • Session Cookies
  • JavaScript

These two option are often enabled in default browser configuration. Please note that the cookies need to be enabled only on the session (temporary) level - these cookies do not persist across browser restarts and cannot be used to track your past visits to various websites.

Please see the Browser section for further details on cookies and JavaScript and for instructions how to enable them.

 

Troubleshooting tips

If you encounter an error (Access Manager error) on login with SSO please clear your session cookies first. The instructions how to do it on various browsers are below. You can also try using an incognito /private browsing window - this can be accessed via the menu in your browser.

 

If you continue receiving an error (Access Manager error) even after you have restarted the browser and cleared the cache then please file a support issue with the CCS IT Help Centre.

If you receive "Authentication Failed" error please make sure your credentials are correct and your account is not locked. Your account may become locked by the  IT Security Office or it can be locked temporarily due to a number of invalid login attempts with wrong credentials. The latter case happens, for example, when a user has a mobile device set up to query GryphMail, the user changes the central password but does not update the password used by the mobile device, and as the mobile device continues querying email with wrong credentials every minute it causes the user to become locked out.

 

Instructions to clear the browser cache

Chrome

  1. open the Chrome menu, which lets you customize and control settings in Google Chrome, and proceed to History
  2. Alternatively you can press Ctrl+H to go to History
  3. Click on "Clear browsing data", make sure at least the "Cookies..." line is checked
  4. Click "Clear browsing data". For more details see the instructions by Google (external site) Google Chrome 

 

Internet Explorer

  1. Open the top Tools menu and select Delete Browsing History.
  2. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Shift+Del
  3. Make sure the "Cookies..." line is selected
  4. Click Delete

 

Firefox

  1. Open the History menu and select Clear Recent History.
  2. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl-Shift-Del
  3. Make sure the "Cookies" line is selected
  4. Click "Clear Now"

 

Safari (specifically for Mac version 7.1.2)

  1. Open the safari menu in the top bar and select preferences.
  2. Select the privacy tab in the window that appears
  3. Either select remove all website data or click details and search for uoguelph.
 
 
 
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