Atlassian Integration Guide : User and Group Management across Directories and Web Applications
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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 DescriptionAtlassian's Crowd is a software application installed by the system administrator. The administrator will also connect one or more of your organisation's applications to Crowd. When you log in to a Crowd-connected application, Crowd will verify your password and login permissions. 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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