JIRA custom authentication

Jahid Shohel

Hi,

We use JIRA for our issue tracking. We have a authentication product, and we are planning to use our authentication system integrated with JIRA and avoid JIRA's default web login. The questions are -

1) Is it possible?

2) It will be a widget or it will be a plugin?

3) Is there any tutorial that you can suggest?

4) Any hint? Any Java class you can mention? Any inteceptor that i need to use to intercept and push login info?

Beause I have read about plugin and gadgets. But I don't know how to attach custom authenticator.

Thanks in advance,

Jahid

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

1. Yes and No
2. Plugin is the way I've done it in the past, because widgets float on top of a framework that includes authentication, and the authentication is what you're after. I don't think you can get a gadget to go that deep into the core of the application. You will probably need something aimed more at Crowd than Jira itself though.
3. Start at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Single+Sign-on+Integration+with+JIRA+and+Confluence
4. As 3, probably

However, the answer to 1 was intended to stop you dead. You've asked this about "OnDemand", which is a hosted product. We can't help you with that. You will need to ask Atlassian to install whatever your authentication method is, and I suspect the answer to that request will be a flat "No". Feel free to ask them, of course, I don't know if they'd be happy to do it. I just think they'll say no. Also, I understand OnDemand uses Crowd to handle users, so you wouldn't look at Jira for it at all, you'd definitely be writing for Crowd.