How can I recover admin access or find the admin email for a Jira project?

[Randy Siciliano]

Hi everyone,

I’ve lost my account details for a Jira project and I’m not sure which email address was the admin one. Whenever I try logging in with different accounts, I only get the message “you may not have access to this repo.”

Is there any way to check which email has admin rights on the project, or request access so I can confirm the right account? I came across the racing game website while trying to figure this out, but it didn’t give me the details I needed.

I think the admin email might be under @adhocordet.ro, but I’m not certain.

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[David Nickell]

You can see what if your answer is available looking at PROJECTs or USERS REST Endpoints.  

Simply plug these in your browser

[1]  https://YOUR URL.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/project/YOUR PROJECT KEY

You will get a lot of project detail inlcuding LEAD (not necessarily the same as admin)

{
  "expand": "description,lead,issueTypes,url,projectKeys,permissions,insight",
  "self": "https://splitdimedata.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/project/10249",
  "id": "10249",
  "key": "COM",
  "description": "",
  "lead": {
    "self": "https://splitdimedata.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/user?accountId=557058:b47a973c-5bbe-4bbf-ab6d-517ec8edd7b7",
    "accountId": "557058:b47a973c-5bbe-4bbf-ab6d-517ec8edd7b7",
    "avatarUrls": {
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    },
    "displayName": "David Nickell",
    "active": true
  },
  "components": [],
  "issueTypes": [
    {
      "self": "https://splitdimedata.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issuetype/10171",
      "id": "10171",
      "description": "Discovery idea",

You can get a list of all users with this endpoint

[2] https://splitdimedata.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/user

Here are the releavant potential REST Endpoints (I think):

/rest/api/3/project/projectIdOrKey/component

/rest/api/3/project/projectId/email

/rest/api/3/projectvalidate/validProjectKey

/rest/api/3/projectvalidate/validProjectName

/rest/api/3/project/projectIdOrKey/properties

/rest/api/3/project/projectIdOrKey/properties/propertyKey

/rest/api/3/project/projectIdOrKey/role

/rest/api/3/project/projectIdOrKey/role/id

/rest/api/3/project/projectIdOrKey/roledetails