Crowd FAQ

I work for a UK higher education institution. You may well have a point about SAML, but the UK education community is proceeding full speed ahead with federated access management (essentially Shibboleth, but that's not quite the official position). Right now, I would like to be able to easily Shibbolise Confluence and JIRA. By round about 2008, it'll be a purchasing requirement. Crowd potentially solves an important problem for us (as well as being Atlassian customers, we are Jive Software customers), but I am in that 2% of customers who need SAML. By the way, on your list of customers here, Universities make up quite a lot more than 2%.

Hi Ernest

Thanks for the link! I am still in the market, though, for a drop in "Education's favourite Java web-applications" SSO tool with Shibboleth integration.

Cheers

Miles

Another vote for SAML. Regardless of the (no doubt valid) issues raised, my company heavily uses Google Apps and Google Apps current only supports SAML to my knowledge. It's tough for me to recommend Crowd if it doesn't support a major part of our infrastructure.

What about SPNEGO?  For an Intranet deployment, my users want automatic authentication.

I respect your decision.  However, as my company (educational non-profit) is looking to move away from a homegrown SSO solution, we're leaning towards SAML since that seems to be where the momentum is for our sector.  As a Jive customer, I'd still perhaps consider using crowd for internal software development, if we were to adopt the atlassian products wholesale.

We're using both AD and Google Apps.  Everything's integrated nicely with on-prem Atlassian.  SPNEGO mentioned above would be awesome.

Does anyone use CAS or a Shibboleth derivative?

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