General FAQ
Concepts:
- What is single sign-on (SSO)?
- What is authorisation?
- What is authentication?
- What is centralised authentication?
- What is identity management?
- What is a directory?
Technical:
- How does Crowd work? How is Crowd an "application security framework"?
- What is an application connector?
- What is a directory connector?
- How many users can Crowd manage?
- How many applications can be used with Crowd?
- We already have an LDAP server for Confluence and/or JIRA. Do we really need Crowd?
Compatibility:
- What are Crowd's system requirements?
- What directories and applications does Crowd support out-of-the-box?
- How can Crowd be connected to new or currently unsupported applications?
- How does Crowd integrate with other Atlassian products?
- Does Crowd include kerberos integration?
- Does Crowd support SAML or Liberty Alliance?
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3 Comments
Hide/Show CommentsDec 13, 2006
Miles Metcalfe
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%.
Jan 02, 2007
Ernest Wong
Hi Miles,
Just a quick note - I believe that Internet2 is currently working on integrating Confluence with Shibboleth, which you may be interested in:
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB/ShibbolizedConfluence
Cheers,
Ernest
Jan 04, 2007
Miles Metcalfe
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