In previous recipes, we have looked at different options for JIRA to use external centralized user repositories, including Crowd. One of the advantages of integrating JIRA with Crowd is its single sign-on (SSO) abilities.
Web-based applications integrated with Crowd are able to participate in an SSO environment; so, when a user is logged in to one application, he/she will be automatically logged in to all other applications.
If you are looking for single sign-on in a Windows environment where users will be automatically logged on to applications with their workstation, read the next recipe, Setting up a Windows domain single sign-on.
Before you can set up SSO with Crowd, you will first need to integrate JIRA with Crowd for user management. Refer to the Integrating with Atlassian Crowd recipe for details.
If you have already integrated JIRA with Crowd, you will need to have the following information:
The application name assigned to JIRA in Crowd...