Integrating with Atlassian Crowd
In the previous recipe, Integrating with LDAP for authentication only, we looked at how to integrate JIRA to an LDAP server for user and group information. Besides using LDAP, another popular option is to use Crowd, which is available at https://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/overview.
Crowd is a user identity management solution from Atlassian, and JIRA supports Crowd integration out-of-the-box. With Crowd, you can also set up a single sign-on option with other Crowd-enabled applications.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you will need to have a Crowd server up and running. You need to make sure that the JIRA server is able to access the Crowd server without any glitches, for example, it is not blocked by firewalls. ...
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