what is Atlassian Crowd

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hi all,

We have our Confluence user directory configured to JIRA Server and under the Type , it says Atlassian Crowd.

I read some documents but looks like Atlassian Crowd is a software that needs to be installed and there is cost involved. I believe we do not have Crowd.

why is this listed as Atlassian Crowd and how is this directory type different than the Atlassian Crowd ?

 

thanks !

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Crowd is an identity system.  There's two versions of it though.  One is a Server which does what you'd expect - manage users and provide a directory for other systems to use.

The other is "embedded crowd" - this is (sort of) a cut down crowd server which provides the "internal" user directory in Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket etc.  It's less functional than server, and has different localised interfaces, so you use it inside the application it is embedded in, rather than as a separate service.

What you have done is told Confluence to use Jira as its directory, rather than its own separate list in its own embedded crowd.  So it's effectively using the Jira embedded Crowd instead of its own.