AD groups and JIRA permissions

Question

Users of JIRA 7.3 server.

we have been using LDAP for authentication and JIRA user groups for permissions/security/notifications.

Now, we plan to move to AD groups. I'm in the process of identifying what User groups in JIRA can be mapped to AD groups.

Confluence and Bamboo use JIRA user directory.

Any links to support documents is helpful.

thanks !

Bhaskar Chandraul_k5z5jd · Answer

were you able to solve the problem. as I also want to implement the thing. but the document shared is not very helpful as it does not describe on how to user AD groups for authentication. Also i want to import certain DL from AD to jira. is that possible.

sn_wwlwcp · Answer

hi @Fazila Ashraf,  what I meant was we use LDAP for only user authentications and have JIRA user groups for permissions.  Now,  want to migrate to AD for user authentication and permissions.    good information , thanks!

Fazila Ashraf · Answer

Hi @sn

I think you have misunderstood something.

AD -> Active Directory is a type of LDAP directory service.

The documentation is the same. Just that JIRA has a quick template for Microsoft Active Directory

It is all in the documentation link i shared above -> https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/connecting-to-an-ldap-directory-938847052.html