Sharing auth between Confluence and Jira?

[Mikhail T]

Though it is exactly the same group of users, that access both Confluence and Jira in our setup, each user still needs to login separately to both.

Is there a way to unify the login? Both system are accessed through the same vhost here: example.com/jira and example.com/wiki, so sharing a cookie should not be a problem. Can it be the same cookie (with the Path set to "/"), however?

Thanks!

[HarryH]

Yes, Jobin is correct, besides this, you might be interested in this. https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Trusted+Communication+between+JIRA+and+Confluence

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You are looking at Single Sign On. Have a look at Crowd.

[Mikhail T]

Thanks, Jobin, for the prompt answer. However, we already have the single auth backend -- the corporate Active Directory. Both applications access it in exactly the same way... Is there a way to make them see and respect each other's auth-cookies?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You can write your own authenticators for both JIRA and Confluence to talk to any SSO solution. Sharing the same user base is only the pre-requisite.

JIRA and Confluence already support the Crowd authentcator but that is useful only if you buy Crowd.

[Mikhail T]

There are two cookies in my browser right now -- both are from the same server (one hosting both applications), both are named JSESSIONID, with the cookie's path set to "/jira/" for one cookie and "/wiki" for another.

It would seem, if both apps could be persuaded to use the path of "/", the Java session could be shared and the auth information with it...