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/.
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-pluginsto${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.
