Crowd add AD user to local group

[Philipp Kayser]

Hi,

I've setup crowd with 2 applications (Confluence and Jira).

We're authenticating against MS Active Directory.

Is there any way to add AD users to Crowd local groups in order to manage the groups from Crowd?

Thanks in advance!

[Bruno Vincent]

Hi @Philipp Kayser 

Yes, there is. You just need to check the 'Manage Groups Locally' option on your connector's tab. Quoting Atlassian's documentation:

If you select the Manage Groups Locally setting on the 'Connector' tab (available only if you've selected the Cache Enabled check box), new groups are created and updated in the Crowd database and not propagated to the LDAP server. Memberships of local groups are also stored locally. This makes it possible to augment the group structure with new groups even with a read-only LDAP server. When this option is enabled, only local groups can be created and updated, while groups synchronized from the remote directory cannot be locally modified.

[Philipp Kayser]

Hi @Bruno Vincent 

Thanks!

So i have to create new groups in the AD directory not in the local crowd directory, right? 

[Bruno Vincent]

Nope. With that option enabled, the new groups you create will be stored and managed in Crowd database and only in Crowd database.