Users and permissions
There are several options for managing your Bamboo users and groups:
- Manage locally in Bamboo.
- Manage with Atlassian's Jira applications or Crowd.
- Manage with an external user repository, such as LDAP.
On this page:
Note that the information on this page doesn't relate to application-level security for Bamboo – see Security instead.
Select a user management option
To select how you want to manage users in Bamboo:
- In the upper right corner of the screen, select Administration
, and then Overview. - In the sidebar, under Security, select User directories.
Select one of the user management options:
Manage locally in Bamboo
Managing users
Managing groupsManage with Atlassian's Jira applications
Allowing Other Applications to Connect to Jira applications for User Management
Manage with Atlassian's Crowd
Integrating Bamboo with Crowd
Manage in a custom external user directory
Integrating Bamboo with LDAP- Select Save.
About users and authors
An author is any person who checks in code to a repository that is associated with a Bamboo plan. An author need not be a Bamboo user.
Depending on your organization's requirements, you can configure Bamboo to grant access to non-users. However, only Bamboo users can:
About groups
Bamboo groups are used to specify which users will have global permissions and plan permissions. They can also be used to specify which users will receive notifications about a plan's build results. You can create and delete as many groups as you need. You will typically create at least one group per project.
A special group called bamboo-admin is automatically created when you install Bamboo. Members of this group have Bamboo administration rights.
Bamboo permissions
Bamboo permissions control access to plans, builds, and administration functions. See Managing permissions.
A plan permission is the ability to perform a particular operation on a plan and its jobs. For each plan, different permissions can be granted to particular groups and/or users. A global permission is the ability to perform a particular operation in relation to Bamboo as a whole.