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Documentation | 2025.5

# Log in/Log out

When you are not logged into P4 Code Review, certain features are unavailable to you, such as providing comments to changes or reviews, adding projects, and more.

## Log in with a password

1. Click Log in on the right of the P4 Code Review header.
2. Type in your username and password, appropriate for the P4 Server that P4 Code Review is configured to use.

3. Select the Remember me check box if you prefer to stay logged in between browser restarts.

   The P4 Server can enforce maximum log in times. You may become logged out even if Remember me is selected. P4 Code Review administrators can change the maximum log in time, see Sessions for details.

4. Click Log in with credentials.

## Log in with SSO

1. If your organization has single sign-on (SSO) configured for P4 Server, you can use it to log in through your organization's identity provider.

2. Open P4 Code Review.

3. Enter your Email or Username.

4. Click Log in with SSO.

   You are prompted to log in to the identity provider.

5. Enter your identity provider credentials.

If your login is successful, the P4 Code Review home page opens. See Quickstart to get started with P4 Code Review.

To log in manually to P4 Code Review using your username and password instead, click Log in with credentials. If you switch to log in with credentials and then decide to use single sign-on, click Log in with SSO.

## Log out of P4 Code Review

1. Click your userid, on the right of the P4 Code Review header.
2. Select Log Out from the drop-down menu.

- If P4 AS is configured for your P4 Server, logging out of P4 Code Review will not invalidate your Identity Provider (IdP) login status. If you try to log back in to P4 Code Review while your IdP status is still valid, you will not be prompted to complete the log in steps.

If require_login is also enabled, P4 Code Review will return you to the login and your IdP will automatically log you back in. In this case log out from your Identity Provider page before logging out from P4 Code Review.

- If a custom redirect has been configured by your P4 Code Review administrator, you are logged out of P4 Code Review and then redirected to the URL specified by the administrator.

The custom redirect can be set to any internal or external URL, for example:

- Company intranet, extranet, internet, FTP, or Web-mail page
- Industry news website
- Identity Provider page to invalidate your IdP log in status

## require_login

By default, P4 Code Review requires users to log in, which prevents anonymous users from accessing a P4 Server via P4 Code Review. Users who have not logged in see a log in page immediately when visiting P4 Code Review:

The steps to log in are identical to using the Log in dialog.

P4 Code Review administrators can disable require_login to allow anonymous users to see commits, reviews, etc.

service and operator users are not permitted to login. See Types of users in the P4 Server Administration Documentation .

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