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JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook, Second Edition covers all the new major features that provide better prioritizing capabilities, enhanced visibility, and the ability to customize JIRA application to meet your needs. We start by upgrading your existing JIRA instance and working through tasks you can perform at the server level to better maintain it. We then delve deep into adapting JIRA to your organization's needs, starting with the visual elements of setting up custom forms to capturing important data with custom fields and screens, and moving on to ensuring data integrity through defining field behaviors. You'll gain insights into JIRA's e-mail capabilities, including managing outgoing e-mail rules and processing incoming e-mails for automated issue creation. The book contains tips and tricks that will make things easier for you as administrators, such as running scripts to automate tasks, getting easy access to logs, and working with tools to troubleshoot problems. The book concludes with a chapter on JIRA Service Desk, which will enable you to set up and customize your own support portal, work with internal teams to solve problems, and achieve optimized services with SLA.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Setting up password policies


By default, JIRA allows you to create a password of any combination and length. For security, organizations often need to have password policies such as password length and complexity to strengthen the passwords, and make them difficult to guess.

In this recipe, we will look at how to set up password policies in JIRA to define the strength of passwords.

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to enable and configure the password policy settings:

  1. Navigate to Administration | System | Password Policy.

  2. Select from one of the predefined policy settings, or select the Custom option, and configure the settings yourself.

  3. Click on the Update button to enable the password policy, as shown in the following screenshot:

How it works...

With the password policy configured, every time someone tries to create a new password, JIRA makes sure that the new password satisfies the policy rules. If it does not, error messages are displayed with information on the requirements, as...