# Stash Latest (2.9) : Administering Stash

Added by pwatson , edited by pwatson on Apr 24, 2013

This section describes some of the administrative actions that can be performed from the Stash Administration user interface (get there by clicking the 'cog' icon in the Stash header).

In this section:

- Users and groups
- Global permissions
- JIRA integration
  - JIRA FishEye-Stash Plugin compatibility
- External user directories
  - Configuring an LDAP directory
  - Configuring delegated LDAP authentication
  - Connecting to Crowd
  - Connecting Stash to JIRA for user management
- Setting up your mail server
- Specifying the base URL for Stash
- Connecting Stash to an external database
- Enabling SSH access to Git repositories in Stash

Related pages:

- Supported platforms
- Using Stash
- Stash FAQ

System administration actions that can be performed outside of the Stash user interface include:

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  Setting up SSH port forwarding
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  Integrating Stash with Apache HTTP Server
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  Moving Stash to a different context path
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  Running Stash with a dedicated user
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  Data recovery and backups
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  Securing Stash with Tomcat using SSL
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  Stash debug logging
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  Changing the port that Stash listens on
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  Securing Stash with Apache using SSL
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  Stash config properties
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  Enabling SSH access to Git repositories in Stash
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  Scaling Stash