The user documentation is available here
In this README you will find more technical information for Developers that are interested in supporting or enhancing this plugin.
This Plugin for Jenkins will provide a Security Realm which allows to do the user authorization and authentication against Jira.
Therefore this plugin makes use of the Jira RESTful API and will try to retrieve the user with all his groups from Jira.
In our company we do have multiple LDAP servers that are hidden behind a lot of firewalls. In our Jira instance all the users from all the departments and countries can work together. Also we are managing some user-groups in Jira to grant access to different projects. Therefore we have written this tiny plugin as a Proof-of-Concept to utilize Jira as an authentication and authoriation system.
One advantage is, that we can manage the groups in Jira by ourselves and don't rely on the Active-Directory administrators. Another advantage is that you don't need to do any configuration inside Jira to use this plugin. One drawback is, that the availability for Jira isn't the same as for the LDAP.
The user documentation is available here
https://ci.jenkins.io/job/Plugins/job/jira-authenticator-plugin/
Stephan Watermeyer (Profile: https://github.com/phreakadelle)
Licensed under the MIT License (MIT).