Sometimes, you might need LDAP only for authentication, and want to keep the group membership separate from LDAP for easy management. In this recipe, we will look at how to integrate Jira with LDAP only for authentication.
Integrating with LDAP for authentication only
Getting ready
For this recipe, you will need to have an LDAP server up and running. You need to make sure that the Jira server is able to access the LDAP server. For more details, refer to the previous recipe, Integrating and importing users from LDAP.
How to do it...
Go through the following steps...