Integrating Crowd with Atlassian CrowdID

Atlassian CrowdID is a free add-on to Crowd. It gives administrators a secure way to provide OpenID accounts for their users.

If you have not already installed CrowdID, follow the instructions below to install it now.

Prerequisites

1. Download and install Crowd. Refer to the Crowd installation guide for detailed information on how to do this. We will refer to the Crowd root folder as CROWD.
2. This guide assumes that CrowdID was NOT installed with the installation of Crowd. If CrowdID was installed using the Crowd Setup Wizard, there is no need for further configuration.

Step 1. Configuring Crowd to Talk to CrowdID

1.1 Prepare Crowd's Directories/Groups/Users for CrowdID

The CrowdID application will need to locate users from a directory configured in Crowd. You will need to set up a directory in Crowd for CrowdID. For information on how to do this, see Adding a Directory. We will assume that the directory is called CrowdID Directory for the rest of this document. It is possible to assign more than one directory for an application, but for the purposes of this example, we will use CrowdID Directory to house CrowdID users.

CrowdID also requires an administrator group to exist in the directory. You need to ensure that a crowd-administrators groups exist in the CrowdID Directory. Any user in this group will have CrowdID administrator access.

The Crowd documentation has more information on creating groups, creating users and assigning users to groups.

1.2 Define the CrowdID Application in Crowd

Crowd needs to be aware that the CrowdID application will be making authentication requests to Crowd. We need to add the CrowdID application to Crowd and map it to the CrowdID Directory.

1. Log in to the Crowd Administration Console and navigate to Applications > Add Application.
2. Complete the 'Add Application' wizard for the CrowdID application. 
   • For the Application type select 'Generic Application'
   • For Name and Password, the values you specify must match the application.name and application.password that you will set in the CROWD/crowd-openidserver-webapp/WEB-INF/classes/crowd.properties file. (See Step 2 below.)

Need more help? See the full instructions for the Add application wizard. 

1.3 Specify which Users can Log In to CrowdID

Once Crowd is aware of the CrowdID application, Crowd needs to know which users can authenticate (log in) to CrowdID via Crowd. As part of the 'Add Application' wizard, you will set up your directories and group authorizations for the application. If necessary, you can adjust these settings after completing the wizard. Below are some examples.

You can either allow entire directories to authenticate, or just particular groups within the directories. In our example, we will allow the entire CrowdID Directory to authenticate:

For details please see Specifying which Groups can access an Application.

1.4 Specify the Address from which CrowdID can Log In to Crowd

As part of the 'Add Application' wizard, you will set up CrowdID's IP address. This is the address which CrowdID will use to authenticate to Crowd. If necessary you can add a hostname, in addition to the IP address, after completing the wizard. See Specifying an Application's Address or Hostname.

Step 2. Configuring CrowdID to Talk to Crowd

Edit CROWD/crowd-openidserver-webapp/WEB-INF/classes/crowd.properties. Change the following properties:

You can read more about optional settings in the crowd.properties file.

After editing these properties, you must restart your CrowdID container before the changes will take effect.

See CrowdID in Action

• Go to http://localhost:8095/openidserver and log in with any user in the CrowdID Directory.

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• Adding an Application
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• Configuring the Google Apps Connector
• Mapping a Directory to an Application
  • Specifying the Directory Order for an Application
  • Specifying an Application's Directory Permissions
    • Example of Directory Permissions
  • Viewing Users in Directories Mapped to an Application
  • Specifying which Groups can access an Application
  • Syncing users based on their access rights
• Effective memberships with multiple directories
• Specifying an Application's Address or Hostname
• Testing a User's Login to an Application
• Enforcing Lower-Case Usernames and Groups for an Application
• Managing an Application's Session
• Deleting or Deactivating an Application
• Overview of SSO
• Configuring Options for an Application
• Enabling OpenID client app
• Disabling the OpenID client app
• Allowing applications to create user tokens
• Configuring how users log in
• Configuring Caching for an Application

Crowd documentation