Shibboleth integration in Jira

[Paul G. Szabady]

Thanks to all that replied!  We have tried "Scott's code (the code at 
https://github.com/chauth/jira_http_authenticator), and it works for the 
most part, but it's missing a method when trying to add a user to a group.

2015-03-10 16:26:41,965 ajp-bio-8010-exec-7 ERROR anonymous 986x45x1 - 
<Redacted IP> /admin [tools.jira.authn.RemoteUserAuthenticator] Failed 
to add user <Redacted username> to group '<Redacted groupname>'!
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 
com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.CrowdService.addUserToGroup(Lcom/atlassian/crowd/embedded/api/User;Lcom/atlassian/crowd/embedded/api/Group;)V
         at 
net.shibboleth.tools.jira.authn.RemoteUserAuthenticator.addUserToGroup(RemoteUserAuthenticator.java:1240)
...

If we manually pre-populate the group(s) through the Jira UI, then 
things work.

The SAML SSO add-on on from the Atlassian Marketplace looked promising, 
but seems geared to a Microsoft shop and they provide support for IdPs 
other than ADFS on a best effort basis only.  So this one's out of the 
question for us.

If we find a way around this, I'll post the info.  Otherwise, I guess we 
may just limp along until an updated version of the 
jira_http_authenticator is available.

Paul G. Szabady
http://go.unc.edu/i3RTs

On 03/10/2015 08:06 PM, Kevin Foote wrote:
>> On Mar 10, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Scott donated the code [1] previously. This is what the project team uses
>>> on the issues site I believe.
>> Yes, but we're on an older version. Most Jira changes involve changes to
>> these plugins, they simply don't have a stable API. Usually the changes
>> are small but involved.
> Agreed!
> I will be working against a JIRA 6 environment soon ish. So I’ll update accordingly
>
>
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> thanks
>   kevin.foote