In the previous recipe, Integrating with another JIRA instance for user information, we looked at how you can use another JIRA as a user repository. In fact, you can use JIRA as a user repository for other Atlassian applications, such as Confluence.
In this recipe, we will look at how to set up JIRA so it can be used as a user repository for other systems.
For an application to use JIRA as a user repository, it first needs to be registered with JIRA. Proceed with the following steps to register a new application in JIRA:
- Navigate to Administration | User Management | JIRA User Server.
- Click on the Add Application button.
- Enter the application name and password for the target application. This will be the credentials used by target application to access JIRA.
- Enter the IP address of the target application. JIRA will only allow connections from the IP addresses specified here.
- Click on the Save button to complete the registration, as shown in the following screenshot:
JIRA comes with an embedded version of Crowd, which has a subset of features of the actual product.
There are three major limitations of using JIRA as a user repository than Crowd:
- There is no single sign-on support
- The JIRA user server can handle a maximum of 500 users
- The JIRA user server can handle a maximum of five applications
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