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 does not relate to application-level security for Bamboo – see Security instead.

Choose a user management option

To choose how you want to manage users in Bamboo:

1. Click the  icon in the Bamboo header and choose Overview.
2. Navigate to User repositories (under 'Security'.

3. Choose one of the user management options:

   Option	Information
   Manage locally in Bamboo	Managing users Managing groups
   Manage with Atlassian's JIRA applications	Allowing Other Applications to Connect to JIRA for User Management
   Manage with Atlassian's Crowd	Integrating Bamboo with Crowd
   Manage in a custom external user directory	Integrating Bamboo with LDAP

4. Click 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 organisation's requirements, you can configure Bamboo to grant access to non-users. However, only Bamboo users can:

• view the My Bamboo tab on the Dashboard.
• belong to a group.

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.