JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

Chapter 4. User Management

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating and importing multiple users
• Enabling public user signup
• Managing groups and group memberships
• Managing project roles
• Managing default project role memberships
• Deactivating a user
• Integrating and importing users from LDAP
• Integrating with LDAP for authentication only
• Integrating with Atlassian Crowd
• Setting up a single sign-on with Crowd
• Setting up a Windows domain single sign-on

Introduction

User management is often one of the most tedious, yet important, aspects of any system. It lays the foundation for many other system functions such as security and notifications.

In this chapter, we will look at the different options to create user accounts in JIRA, and also how to ...