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Cassandra Bailes
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April 2, 2018

How do we change the site admin?

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April 2, 2018

Hi Cassandra,

You will need to create the user and assign the user ID to the "administrators" and the "site-admin" groups. If the previous site admin is no longer in that role simply remove the user from those groups. Here are some instructions that may help:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloudkb/transfer-jira-or-confluence-account-ownership-to-another-user-691012069.html

 

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@saloni 

You had the same doubt right

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