In the previous recipe, we have looked at how to integrate JIRA with LDAP for authentication, users, and group management. Sometimes, you might need LDAP only for authentication, and you want to keep the group membership separate from LDAP for easy management.
In this recipe, we will look at how to integrate JIRA with LDAP only for authentication.
Proceed with the following steps to integrate JIRA with an LDAP server exclusively for authentication:
Navigate to Administration | User Management | User Directories.
Click on the Add Directory button and select Internal with LDAP Authentication.
Enter the LDAP server and schema settings. Most of the parameters are identical to creating a normal LDAP connection with a few exceptions. Refer to the following table for details.
Click on the Quick Test button to validate JIRA's connectivity to LDAP.