Chapter 16. Nexus Atlassian Crowd Plugin

Atlassian's Crowd is a single sign-on and identity management product that many organizations use to consolidate user accounts and control which users and groups have access to which applications. Nexus Professional contains an optional security plugin that allows you to configure Nexus to authenticate against an Atlassian Crowd instance. For more information about Atlassian Crowd, go to http://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/.

16.1. Installing the Crowd Plugin

When you downloaded Nexus Professional, you also download a few optional plugins including the Nexus Crowd plugin. This plugin is located in the ${NEXUS_HOME}/runtime/apps/nexus/optional-plugins directory under security-crowd-realm-1.4.1. To install this plugin in Nexus:

  • Copy the security-crowd-realm-1.4.1/ directory from ${NEXUS_HOME}/runtime/apps/nexus/optional-plugins to ${SONATYPE_WORK}/nexus/plugin-repository.

  • Once the optional User Account plugin has been copied to the plugin-repository/ directory, restart Nexus and the User Account plugin will be installed.