How to Set Up Google Apps With Atlassian Crowd
Atlassian Crowd includes a Google Apps connector, which you can set up to enable “single sign-in” support between Atlassian Crowd and Google Apps. Users can sign in to their Atlassian Crowd account and have access to their associated Google Apps account without signing in twice. The standard version of Google Apps doesn’t support the single sign-in feature; you must use a premier, education or partners edition of Google Apps.
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Instructions
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Open the Atlassian Crowd administration console by typing “localhost:8095/crowd” into your Web browser’s address bar on the computer running Atlassian Crowd and pressing “Enter.” Log in with your username and password to access the console.
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Click the “Applications” tab after logging in and click the “Google-apps” application on the Application Browser page. Verify that the “Enabled” check box on the details page that appears is checked.
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Click the “Directories” tab and add user directories. Users in the directories you add here have single sign-on access to Google Apps. Users that aren’t in these directories can’t access Google Apps via Crowd.
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Click the “Configuration” tab and click the “Generate New Keys” button. Note the “Sign-in Page URL,” “Sign-out Page URL” and “Change Password URL” addresses on the page.
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Open your Google Apps control panel at www.google.com/a/example.com, where example.com is your domain, and sign in with your administrator account’s username and password.
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Click the “Advanced Tools” tab after signing in and click the “Set up Single Sign-on (SSO)” link on the page.
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Click the “Enable Single Sign-on” check box on the page.
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Enter the addresses from the Sign-in Page URL, Sign-out Page URL and Change Password URL fields into the associated boxes on the page.
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Click the “Browse” button under Validation Certificate, browse to the “Plugin-data\crowd-saml-plugin” directory in your Crowd Home directory, double-click the “DSAPublic.key” and click “Upload.” The location of the Crowd Home directory is set during Atlassian Crowd installation.
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Click the “Save Changes” button on the page.
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Click the “Authentication Test” tab on the Google Apps page in Crowd’s Application Browser. Enter a user account’s username and password to test Google Apps single sign-in support.
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Tips & Warnings
A user can only sign in to Google Apps from Atlassian Crowd if her username is the same in Google Apps and Atlassian Crowd. Create user accounts with the same names in Atlassian Crowd and Google Apps; the user accounts must exist in both locations.
