Below are some links to external blog posts and articles containing technical tips and instructions on setting up and using Crowd. This page presents an opportunity for customers and community authors to share information and experiences.
The references here are specific to Crowd and are technical 'how to' guides written by bloggers who use Crowd. For more general information on identity management solutions, best practices and business cases, please refer to the Atlassian website.
 | Please be aware that these are external blogs and articles. Most of the links point to external sites, and some of the information is relevant to a specific release of Crowd. Atlassian provides these links because the information is useful and relevant at the time it was written. Please check carefully whether the information is still relevant when you read it, and whether it is relevant to your version of Crowd. Unless explicitly stated, Atlassian does not offer support for third-party extensions or plugins. The information in the linked blog posts has not been tested or reviewed by Atlassian. We recommend that you test all solutions on a test server before trying it on your production site. |
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Application Connectors
Three's a Crowd - securing a Grails application with Acegi and Crowd
- By: Kate Ellingburg, on the 'Atlassian Blog'
- About: How to get Grails, Acegi and Crowd going together
- Date and Crowd version: 4 March 2008; Crowd 1.3
- Related documentation: Integrating Crowd with Spring Security
SSO for RoundCube Webmail with Atlassian Crowd
- By: Stefan Reuter, on the 'Stefan Reuter' blog
- About: Integrating a webmail system (RoundCube Webmail 0.2.2) with Crowd
- Date and Crowd version: 24 June 2009; Crowd 1.6
- Related documentation: Creating a Crowd Client for your Custom Application
Nexus Crowd Plugin Introduction
- By: Justin Edelson, on the 'Sonatype Blog'
- About: Using Crowd with Sonatype Nexus, via a new plugin for Nexus
- Date and Crowd version: 28 February 2009; Crowd 1.6
- Related documentation: Creating a Crowd Client for your Custom Application
Install Crowd Apache2 Module
- By: Scott Herdman, on blog 'swherdman.com'
- About: Integrating Crowd with Apache on Debian
- Date and Crowd version: 22 July 2009
- Related documentation: Integrating Crowd with Apache
Remote API
Bulk User Management with Crowd's Remote API
- By: Andreas Knecht, on the 'Atlassian Blog'
- About: Adding multiple users to a group in Crowd, using Crowd's remote API and Ruby
- Date and Crowd version: 11 September 2008; Crowd 1.5
- Related documentation: Managing Group Members
Performance and Load Testing
Crowd Caching in 1.6
- By: Shihab Hamid, on the 'Atlassian Blog'
- About: Caching in Crowd 1.6
- Date and Crowd version: 4 January 2009; Crowd 1.6
- Related documentation:
Hammering Crowd
- By: Shihab Hamid, on the 'Atlassian Blog'
- About: Tips for and finding from Crowd performance and load testing
- Date and Crowd version: 30 March 2008; Crowd 1.3
- Related documentation:
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