Can I get LDAP groups into Crucible?
Asked by Brent Villalobos:

Is there any way to import LDAP groups into Crucible? Looking at all the configuration fields, it appears that I can only import users from LDAP and have to create groups manually. Can I link up Crucible to another Atlassian service that does support LDAP groups and get them from there? Is there any external API I could run to synchronize LDAP groups and Crucible groups?


Answers:
author: Douglas Fabretti
body: Hi Brent.

Unfortunately LDAP groups are not supported within fisheye/crucible.   

If you have Crowd - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Configuring+an+LDAP+Directory+Connector> and after configure CROWD as the Authentication in Crucible - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/JIRA+Integration+in+FishEye#JIRAIntegrationinFishEye-2.ConnectingtoJIRAforUserManagement>

Or you can also use JIRA - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory> and after configure JIRA as the Authentication in Crucible - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/JIRA+Integration+in+FishEye#JIRAIntegrationinFishEye-2.ConnectingtoJIRAforUserManagement>

Please let me know if this helps.

Cheers,  
**Douglas Fabretti**   
**Atlassian Support**

comments: author: Brent Villalobos
body: Thanks. We do have Jira, but I'm stuck on step 2.2.b in the url you provided ( <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/JIRA+Integration+in+FishEye#JIRAIntegrationinFishEye-2.ConnectingtoJIRAforUserManagement>). There is no section titled "JIRA or Crowd Authentication" on our instance. Two things to note:

* We are using Crucible stand alone without Fisheye.
* We are using version: 2.7.10 Build:20120119115142 2012-01-19.


author: lpater
body: Just an update, FishEye/Crucible 4.0 brings full support for LDAP groups and multiple user directories. See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/External+user+directories> for details.


author: Jason Reynolds
body: Is there a way to import groups from Crowd into Crucible/FishEye? Right now, when I attempt to specify groups in the application configuration within Crowd, Crucible/FishEye will import the users within the groups, but groups themselves will not be imported.


author: David Chou
body: Anyone know if a Feature Request for this? I filed it in FE <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/FE-4615>, hope it's not a dup


author: Fei Wang
body: **2.2. To set up the JIRA user directory in FishEye:**

1. Go to your FishEye administration screen.
   1. Click **Authentication** (under 'Security Settings').
   2. Click **Setup JIRA/Crowd authentication** . **Note, if LDAP authentication has already been set up, you will need to remove that before connecting to JIRA for user management**

More detail info refer to

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/JIRA+Integration+in+FishEye#JIRAIntegrationinFishEye-2.ConnectingtoJIRAforUserManagement>


author: Douglas Fabretti
body: Hi Brent.

To configure Crowd for your Crucible you can follow this:

* Go to Administration \> Security Settings \> Authentication
* Under Authentication Settings \> Setup JIRA/Crowd Authentication
* Authentication against \> a Jira Instance

Then configure it according to your environment and it should work properly.

Please let me know how it goes.

Cheers,  
**Douglas Fabretti**   
**Atlassian Support**

comments: author: Brent Villalobos
body: Sorry, but "Setup JIRA/Crowd Authentication" is not an option for me. Under "Security Settings --\> Authentication" there these sections:

*

  Global Permissions {#toc-hId-1645655827}
  ----------------------------------------

*

  Built-in {#toc-hId--906501134}
  ------------------------------

*

  Usernames {#toc-hId-836309201}
  ------------------------------

*

  User List Visibility {#toc-hId--1715847760}
  -------------------------------------------

*

  Email Visibility {#toc-hId-26962575}
  ------------------------------------

*

  LDAP Authentication settings {#toc-hId-1769772910}
  --------------------------------------------------

*

  Security settings {#toc-hId--782384051}
  ---------------------------------------

Do I need to install a plugin or something else to get that Crowd Authentication? Or is this something only available with Fisheye, not stand alone Crucible?


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