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Overview

The Artifactory Crowd Integration allows you to delegate authentication requests to Atlassian Crowd, use authenticated Crowd users and have Artifactory participate in a transparent SSO environment managed by Crowd.

Usage

Crowd integration can then be configured from the Admin tab and then Security -> Crowd Integration.

Field NameDescription
Enable Atlassian Crowd IntegrationMark this checkbox to enable security integration with Atlassian Crowd.
Crowd Server URLThe full URL of the Crowd server to use.
Crowd Application NameThe application name configured for Artifactory in Crowd.
Crowd Application PasswordThe application password configured for Artifactory in Crowd.
Session Validation IntervalThe time window, in minutes, in which the session does not need to be revalidated.
Use Default Proxy ConfigurationIf this checkbox is marked and a default proxy definition exists, it is used to pass through to the Crowd Server.
Auto Create Artifactory Users

When automatic user creation is off, authenticated users will not be automatically created inside Artifactory. Instead, for every request from a Crowd user, the user is temporarily
associated with default groups (if such groups are defined), and the permissions for these groups applies.
 

Without auto user creation, you will need to manually create the user inside Artifactory in order to manage user permissions that are not attached to his default groups.

Filter by Username

Filter the search by username to see only groups of the specified username

 If unchecked, all Crowd groups are shown.

 

To enable Crowd integration:

  1. First define Artifactory as a Custom Application Client inside Crowd.
  2. Complete the Crowd server URL, and the application credentials defined in Step 1.
  3. The session validation interval defines the principal token validity time in minutes. If left at the default of 0, the token expires only when the session expires.
  4. If you have a proxy server between the Artifactory server and the Crowd server, you may check the Use Default Proxy Configuration check-box.
  5. It is possible instruct Artifactory to treat externally authenticated users as temporary users, so that Artifactory does not automatically create them in its security store. In this case, permissions for such users are based on the permissions given to auto-join groups.
  6. Test the configured connection and save it.

System properties

Crowd configuration properties may be added to the Runtime system properties or to the $ARTIFACTORY_HOME/etc/artifactory.system.properties file.

NOTE! that setting a configuration through properties overrides configurations set through the user interface.

Crowd Groups

To use Crowd groups:

  1. Set up a Crowd server for authentication as detailed above.
  2. Verify your setup by clicking the Refresh button on the Synchronize Crowd Groups sub-panel. A list of available Crowd groups, according to your settings is displayed.
  3. The groups table allows you to select which groups to import into Artifactory and displays the sync-state for each group. A group can either be completely new or already exist in Artifactory.
  4. Select and import the groups that you wish to import to Artifactory. Once a group is imported (synced) a new external Crowd group is created in Artifactory with the name of the group.

You can Manage Permissions on the synced Crowd groups as you do with regular Artifactory groups.

Users association to these groups is external and controlled strictly by Crowd.

Ensure the Crowd group settings is enabled in order for your settings to become effective.
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