How can I make a project's access restricted to a specific user group?

[Akash Chaudhary]

Hi, I tried making a project's access restricted to a specific user group in Classic Project View Setting. After doing some research, I tried making Project Roles and User Groups but could not find out how could I restrict the users of that group see details of only that project to which that user group is tagged. Is it doable? Please help.

[Joe Pitt]

To start, don;'t use groups. 

First, by default JIRA has a horrible permission scheme that violates security best practices by allowing everyone that can logon to do just about everything.

JIRA works by GRANTING access. You can't restrict access. By default, it grants access to the group used to logon (see Global permissions to see the "can use" groups and admin groups).  This is where users are probably getting the access from.

1. The FIRST thing you need to do to get control is to remove any groups with logon privileges from the permission scheme. unless you absolutely want everyone to have that permission.
2. Then I suggest you setup Project Roles for the various functions like, tester, QA, Browse Only, etc.
3. By using roles one permission scheme will cover all projects. The project admin controls project role membership
4. If the project leads want everyone that can logon access to the project they can add the logon group to a project role with the desired permissions.

This may be a big effort, but it will pay off down the road by making it easy to control access.

Most of the 'old timers' use project roles. It meets the best practice for security and gives complete control to the project lead for access to their project. JIRA comes with many project roles, but you can add more if you have a special need.