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What is a default authentication policy?

Who can do this?
Role: Organization admin
Atlassian Cloud: Atlassian Guard Standard to create more than one authentication policy
Atlassian Government Cloud: Available

Your managed accounts provide you with a pool of users for authentication policies. You assign users to be members of policies. Your organization starts with a default authentication policy. The default policy contains login settings for its members. When you provision new managed accounts, we add them as members to your default policy.

To make another policy the default policy:

  1. Go to Atlassian Administration. Select your organization if you have more than one.

  2. Select Security > Authentication policies.

  3. Select Edit for the policy you want to make the default.

  4. Select Make default policy in the (•••) menu.

To add a policy

  1. Go to Atlassian Administration. Select your organization if you have more than one.

  2. Select Security > Authentication policies.

  3. Select Add policy.

  4. Select the Directory for your identity provider

  5. Name the policy.

  6. Select Settings you’d like to apply

  7. Select Update policy in the (•••) menu.

You can’t delete a default policy
1. Select another policy to be the default.
2. Delete the policy (which is no longer the default policy).

To delete a policy:

  1. Go to Atlassian Administration. Select your organization if you have more than one.

  2. Select Security > Authentication policies.

  3. Select Edit for the policy you want to delete.

  4. Select Delete policy.

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