JIRA LDAP integration query

[Sanu Soman]

Hi All,

Please let me know if some of the current JIRA users are not in LDAP and then also if we do integration with LDAP then what will be the cause?

Is the only issue that users not part of LDAP will not be able to login? Or any other issues?

Thanks,

Sanu P Soman

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

As long as you have users either in LDAP or in the internal directory, you will be fine. If you have the same user in both, the order of the directories determine which one to be picked.

[Sanu Soman]

JIRA version - 5.1.6

I'm just disabling the internal directory, I guess that is possible?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Oh yes, if you do not want to let internal users login, then disable it.

[Sanu Soman]

Here we already having two user directories, one is internal JIRA and other is crowd directory and both are active now. So in this case if we integrate LDAP to the instance and disable other two diectories from JIRA then we need to manually change user directory to LDAP from user properties in JIRA for each users or it will auto detect the appropriate user name from LDAP directory and give login access? Also from here, users which are not part of LDAP directory will not be able to login.. right?

If so, how I can edit the username to get login access via LDAP? XML edit is the only possible way? (Take a XML backup and global edit the existing username to LDAP username and restore)?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

First of all, which version of JIRA are you on? Latest versions let you configure directories from user interface.

Secondly, don't delete JIRA internal directory. Don' think you can do that anyway!

[Sanu Soman]

So in that case, only LDAP users can able to login? also XML edit is the only option for renaming existing username?

Please confirm.

Many thanks in advance.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Yes to both. In JIRA 6.0, option to rename is coming.