Atlassian Integration Guide : User and Group Management across Directories and Web Applications This page last changed on Aug 22, 2008 by smaddox. This page summarises the user and group management features offered by Atlassian Crowd and provides links to more information. On this page: Short Description Full Description Components Documentation ## Short Description Use Crowd to manage users and groups simply and centrally. You can use Crowd's internal user directories or hook up your existing LDAP user bases, then link them to your web applications. Crowd provides an Administration Console for administrators as well as a Self-Service Console, allowing users to view their login permissions and to change their own passwords and user profiles. ## Full Description Atlassian's Crowd is a software application installed by the system administrator. The administrator will also connect one or more of your organisation's applications to Crowd. When you log in to a Crowd-connected application, Crowd will verify your password and login permissions. Using Crowd for single sign-on (SSO), each person needs only one username and password to access all web applications. You can host your own OpenID provider to include external applications. You only need to log in once, to Crowd or a Crowd-connected application. When you start another Crowd-connected application, you will be logged in automatically. When you log out of Crowd or one of the Crowd-connected applications, you will be logged out of Crowd and the other application(s) at the same time. Crowd also manages the information held about you as a user of other software applications: Your login permissions to various applications. The password you use to log in to those applications. The groups and roles you belong to, which are used by the applications to decide which functions you can perform within the applications. The user directories which hold your information. ## Components ###### Type of Integration Crowd is an application security framework that handles authentication and authorisation for your web-based applications. You will need to download and install Crowd, and then configure it to hook up your applications and user directories. More about Crowd Download Crowd ## Documentation
###### Latest Version Please refer to the Crowd documentation: Crowd 101 Crowd User Guide Crowd Administration Guide Crowd Installation & Upgrade Guide CrowdID User Guide CrowdID Administration Guide Crowd FAQ Crowd Resources | ###### All Versions Crowd 2.0 Documentation Crowd 1.6 Documentation Crowd 1.5 Documentation Crowd 1.4 Documentation Crowd 1.3 Documentation Crowd 1.2 Documentation Crowd 1.1 Documentation Crowd 1.0 Documentation

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