Associating a user with an SCM account

As a System Administrator, you can explicitly associate an SCM (Source Control Management) account with a SonarQube user account. 

About the SCM account association

SonarQube Server associates users with SCM (Source Control Management) accounts to automatically assign issues to users:

• If SonarQube Server delegates the authentication to a third-party identity provider, this association is done through the delegation. However, you can associate the user with additional SCM accounts.
• If no delegation is used, SonarQube Server recognizes the SCM account from the SonarQube Servers account's Login and/or Email address. If it cannot perform the association (or if you want to associate other SCM accounts with the user account), you can do it explicitly.

To add an SCM account to a SonarQube Server user account, you associate the SCM account's login name or email address with the SonarQube Server account.

Adding an SCM account to a SonarQube Server user account

1. Got to Administration > Security > Users and retrieve the user.
2. In the user's Actions column, select the three-dot menu.
3. Select Update (SCM) details.
4. Near SCM Accounts, select Add. A box is displayed.
5. In the box, enter the SCM account's login or email address.
6. To add another account, re-select Add, etc.
7. Select Update.  The added SCM accounts are displayed in the SCM Accounts column as illustrated below.

Related pages

• Retrieving and viewing user accounts 
• Delegating user authentication
• Automatic issue assignment
• Local user concept