How to put a project secret even to some admins

[Deleted user]

Good afternoon,

I am a beginner on JIRA (I started yesterday) and I would like to know what would you do in this case.

I explain, on JIRA we are 5 admins (me included) and one of the admin (we call him Jason for the example)  want to open a project only for one other admin (Clark) but don´t want the 3 remaining to have any access.

My idea is to create another category of users like : admin, adminbis, users and put the project secret for adminbis and users. Or, maybe, Jason can simply make his project private and put the appropriate rights only to Clark ?

But perhaps is there something more efficient, so I would like to know what are the possibilities in this case ?

Thank you for your answer.

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

If the other 3 are "project admins" it is easy enough as "project admins" only have administration over specific project(s). If they are Jira/System admins you cannot limit their access.

see if this article helps - permissions-overview

[Deleted user]

We are Jira/System admins, so there is no way ?

[Jack Brickey]

correct

[Deleted user]

Well,  I have to find something, what if we put the 3 admins as "project admins" and give them acess to every projects except one ? Would it be like they were still "System admins"?

[Jack Brickey]

that would work as long as the 3 do not need system admin rights. TBH, 5 system admins seems way too many as it raises the risk of messing something up.

[Deleted user]

Well, there are as many admins as departments (marketing, development, sales etc.), so that every admin can add or delete users from their department.

Maybe, we can change that. Can we create in JIRA some groups like a "marketing group" and put an admin for each group who won´t be a system admin ?

[Jack Brickey]

Understand but FWIW, managing users is not a good reason to make someone a system admin. That is but one small component of what an admin can do. However, lets but my opinions to the side here. :-)

Yes you can certainly create groups and you can certain create project admins for each group or rather for the projects that the group is associated with. By the way, you can consider Next-gen projects for some groups. NG allows anyone to be able to create/manage their projects. No system admin functions exist or are required. The one plus here is that no matter what someone does in a give NG project they cannot impact other projects.

[Deleted user]

Thank you for your answers.