How to remotely login a user

Marc Demhartner

Hello,

we want to provide a Website link from our existing SaaS application to our hosted confluence site for documentation porpurses. 

So, for this, we want the user not to have to sign in again at the confluence system with username & password.

 

Curretnly we only see the option to give username and password (in cleartext!) with in the URL - we can´t believe that this is the only option ?!

 

Please describe how we can accomplish a remote login procedure on our local installed confluence. 

 

Thank you.

Stephen Sifers

Hello Marc,

Having users accessing a system without having to login is a major plus when pushing for adoption and simplified access. In order to do this with Confluence, you have a few options available to you.

The first option would be to use a SAML integration to allow for SSO type access into your systems. You can find more about SAML and SSO through the following:

Server: SSO and SAML support

Single Sign-on Integration with the Atlassian stack

The other option would require the use of Atlassian Crowd. Crowd would act as your primary authentication source and all users would (when accessing Atlassian tools) authenticate through Crowd. Crowd also offers SSO capabilities. You can find more about Crowd at the following;

Introduction to Crowd

https://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd

I hope this provides better options then having plain text usernames within a URL. Please let us know if you would like any further information.

Regards,
Stephen Sifers