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JIRA Essentials

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA Essentials

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JIRA Essentials Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

User directories


User directories are what JIRA uses to store information about users and groups. A user directory is backed by a user repository system, such as LDAP, a database, or a remote user management system, such as Atlassian Crowd.

You can have multiple user directories in JIRA. This allows you to connect your JIRA instance to multiple user repositories. For example, you can have an LDAP directory for your internal users and a database directory (a JIRA internal directory) for external users. A example is given, in the following screenshot, is that, we have two user directories configured. The first user directory is the built-in JIRA Internal directory running on the JIRA database. The second user directory is connected to Microsoft Active Directory in read-only mode. The last user directory is connected to Crowd, a user identity management software from Atlassian:

Perform the following steps to access the user directories' interface:

  1. Browse to the JIRA administration console.

  2. Select...