How do I use JIRA 6.3 for User Management?

Wayne Pearson

I had my Confluence, Stash and Bamboo all nicely configured to use JIRA as my user authentication. With recent security updates, I updated all four packages...

The Stash upgrade went poorly (that's for another time), so is being configured from scratch. I'm trying to get it to use JIRA, but am failing. Searching through documentation says to configure the Application Name in JIRA in the JIRA User Server section. I am not finding this section.

My Confluence and Bamboo servers still work fine (even though I can't find where in Bamboo that's configured). Confluence says it's configured as an Atlassian Crowd connection, not Atlassian JIRA. And while I'm sure JIRA still has the Application Name and Application Password from my previous Stash integration, I'll be damned if I know what they are (can't seem to look at Confluence's setup to get an idea), nor how to find that out (or set it) in JIRA

 

JIRA v6.3.14

Stash v3.6.0

 

Thanks for any help.

Caspar Krieger

When JIRA acts as a user server, it pretends it's a Crowd server (it actually uses much of the same code under the covers). So that's why Confluence thinks it's connected to a Crowd server.

To connect Stash to JIRA, if you can't see a directory type of JIRA, then just pick "Crowd" and it should work equivalently.

In Stash, you'll need to enter in the same application credentials as JIRA has recorded from your past Stash integration, but since you don't remember them, in JIRA go to User Management > JIRA User Server and delete the old Stash application (since this "application" is really just a username & password for Stash to use, you won't lose any data), then add a new application again from the same spot (and enter the credentials you provide here into Stash).