User management is one of the most tedious, yet important, aspects of any system. It lays the foundation for many other system functions, such as security and notifications.

In this chapter, we will look at the different options available to create user accounts in Jira, and also how to manage users by using groups and project roles. We will also look at how to integrate Jira with external user-management systems, such as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), for both authentication and user management. Lastly, we will cover how to make Jira participate in various single sign-on environments.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating and importing multiple users
• Enabling public user signup
• Managing groups and group memberships
• Managing project roles
• Managing default project role memberships
• Deactivating a user
• Integrating and importing users from LDAP
• Integrating with LDAP for authentication only
• Integrating with Atlassian Crowd
• Setting up single sign-on with Crowd
• Setting up single sign-on with Google
• Setting up Windows domain single sign-on