Does Atlassian Crowd support SAML?

Is there any update on SAML support in Crowd? Well yes, sort of. Atlassian released Crowd SSO 2.0 in Crowd 3.4 (Data Center only). This is basically SAML authentication for Atlassian products (e.g. Jira, Confluence), the Crowd server acting as a SAML Identity Provider.

What is Crowd in Atlassian?

Atlassian Crowd is an application security framework that handles authentication and authorization for your web-based applications. With Crowd you can integrate multiple web applications and user directories, with support for single sign-on (SSO) and centralized identity management.

What is Crowd SSO?

Crowd provides single sign-on (SSO) across a number of applications. This means that users can log in just once, then access the applications without having to log in to each one individually.

What is Crowd API?

Crowd’s REST APIs provide access to resources (data entities) via URI paths. To use a REST API, your application will make an HTTP request and parse the response. By default, the response format is XML. If you wish, you can request JSON instead of XML.

How do I enable SSO in Jira?

Configure SAML 2.0 on Jira

  1. Login to Jira as an administrator and go to Cog icon > System.
  2. Click on Authentication methods.
  3. Give the integration a name.
  4. On Authentication method choose SAML single sign-on to configure the SAML SSO 2.0 settings.

What is crowd LDAP?

Implementation of an LDAP server that delegates authentication to an Atlassian Crowd installation using the Crowd REST API. This service allows your favourite SSO authentication source to be used from many legacy devices, appliances and systems.

What does Jira crowd do?

Crowd is an application security framework that handles authentication and authorization for your web-based applications. With Crowd you can quickly integrate multiple web applications into a single security architecture that supports single sign-on (SSO) and centralized identity management.

Do you need Atlassian access for SSO?

Currently, the only option that is still possible to configure without an Organization and Access is GSuite, but if you need to connect an Identity provider to allow users to login using SSO, it’s necessary to use Atlassian access. You can use your own identity provider with Atlassian Access.

Do you need Atlassian access for SAML?

This section describes how to set up SAML single sign-on. You need to have already subscribed to Atlassian Access before you can set up SAML single sign-on for your managed users.