LDAP integration lets you use user credentials stored in your directory service to log into YouTrack. Please note, that LDAP integration does not download all users from LDAP after setup. A new YouTrack user account is created for a user upon the first login to YouTrack.
Please note, that 'User registration' option in the Administration > Settings should be enabled in order to create new user accounts for LDAP credentials.
This integration feature is bundled in YouTrack and is configured in the Administration area of your installation:
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Configuring LDAP Integration
To enable LDAP integration:
- In the LDAP Integration tab, click Enable LDAP Integration.
- Enter the URL of your LDAP server.
- To make sure that the connection with your LDAP server works:
- Click Test connection.
- In the Test LDAP Login dialog box, enter a pair of user credentials stored in your directory service:
- domain\username in the Login field.
- password in the Password field.
- Click Test Login.
- If an error message if displayed, check your user credentials and/or server URL.
- Click Done to close the Test LDAP Login dialog box.
- To open Advanced options click an arrow to expand advanced options pane.
- If needed specify transformation pattern, which will be applied to a trimmed login name (login name with removed prefix before slash; for example, smith as a trimmed user login name for WORKGROUP/smith full user name) entered by a user. User-entered login name can be referenced as $login$. By default, no transformation is applied. Transformation pattern sample: UID=$login$,DC=example,DC=com.
- If needed, specify pattern for search query searching a user by a specific login name. By default, the following pattern is used: (aAMAccountName=$login$).

Important note
Please note that parentheses are necessary in Query pattern: enter (uid=$login$) instead of uid=$login$ .
Sample Configuration
Here is an example of configuration settings for LDAP integration:
In the administration web UI the above configuration looks like this:
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