Atlassian Integration Guide : User and Group Management across Directories and Web Applications
This page last changed on Aug 22, 2008 by smaddox.
This page summarises the user and group management features offered by Atlassian Crowd and provides links to more information. On this page: Short DescriptionUse Crowd to manage users and groups simply and centrally. You can use Crowd's internal user directories or hook up your existing LDAP user bases, then link them to your web applications. Crowd provides an Administration Console for administrators as well as a Self-Service Console, allowing users to view their login permissions and to change their own passwords and user profiles. Full Description
Using Crowd for single sign-on (SSO), each person needs only one username and password to access all web applications. You can host your own OpenID provider to include external applications.
Crowd also manages the information held about you as a user of other software applications:
ComponentsType of IntegrationCrowd is an application security framework that handles authentication and authorisation for your web-based applications. You will need to download and install Crowd, and then configure it to hook up your applications and user directories. Documentation
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