# Stash Latest (2.12) : Administering Stash

Created and last modified by pwatson on Jan 31, 2014

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