Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
How it works…
What we have just created in this recipe is called a
connector
. With a connector, JIRA will
first pull user and group information from LDAP and create a local cache, and then period-
ically synchronize any deltas.
All authentication will be delegated to LDAP; so, if a user's password is updated in LDAP,
it will be immediately reflected when the user attempts to log in to JIRA. It is important to
note that with LDAP, users must still be in the necessary groups (for example, jira-users by
default) in order to access JIRA. So, you need to make sure that you either create a group
called jira-users in LDAP and add everyone to it, or grant the JIRA Users global permis-
sion to other custom groups, such as all employees.
Also note that, only users who have access to JIRA will count toward your license count.
