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How to create users on Confluence problematically or using Ansible

Omar_Abdelrazik

I have been looking for ways to create new users on Confluence using Ansible (or any scripting language) but couldn't find any documentation or a way around that.

All I got was page and space management; which is not what I need.

Is there a way to programatically create new users or is it not supported?

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Shannon S

Hello Omar,

Welcome to Atlassian Community. It's nice to have you join us. In order to work with Confluence programmatically, you will need to use the API. However, the Confluence API doesn't include a way to create users at this time. There's a feature request for this below.

CONFCLOUD-54893 Provide a Confluence Rest API to create a user

If you also have Jira hosted on your Atlassian Cloud site, then as a workaround you can use the Jira Cloud API to create the user, and then assign the Confluence license groups all via REST-API. This is not possible if you do not have Jira hosted on your site.

For more information:

If you need any assistance in the future with this, you can visit our Atlassian Developer support resources below.

I hope that helps, but do let us know if you have any questions.

Shannon

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Shannon S

Hello Omar,

CONFCLOUD-54893 Provide a Confluence Rest API to create a user

For more information:

If you need any assistance in the future with this, you can visit our Atlassian Developer support resources below.

I hope that helps, but do let us know if you have any questions.

Shannon

Omar_Abdelrazik

Thank you, Shannon.

I have Jira in fact but it's not JIRA cloud. Would this make a difference?

And if it's possible, could you please tell me how to do it? Will it be through duplicating user directors?

On JIRA, I wasn't able to find the JIRA User Server that facilities the connection.

And while we're at it, assuming that I used the JIRA User Server configuration, what should count as the account name and password?

Thanks a mil.

Shannon S

Hi Omar,

Unfortunately, in order for that to work, you would need to be able to do your user provisioning from Jira Server, which isn't possible in Confluence Cloud.

Atlassian Access, which is a paid extension to Cloud, has some ways to do external provisioning. You can read about from our document, User Provisioning with Atlassian Access. If you have Atlassian Access already, you can read more about how to configure that from Configure User Provisioning. Then, depending on which provider you choose, you may be able to do it that way, instead of through Confluence.

Even though it's not possible to use Jira Server in this particular case, if you still want to know how to connect to Jira Server via REST-API, have a look here: Jira Server REST-API Security Overview.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Take care,

Shannon

Omar_Abdelrazik

@Shannon S I am sorry, I believe I didn't get what you said.

In the first paragraph you mentioned that I need to do the user provisioning from Jira server.

I already have Jira but I can't find the option User Management -> Jira User Server.

Would this be due to a limitation or do I need to purchase a plugin/service for the Jira User Server feature to appear on my admin portal?

Also I am trying to access the link for the Jira Server Rest API Security overview but it looks to be broken.

It would be very helpful to tell me why the Jira Server is not possible in my case and what could I do to make it happen (apart from subscribing for Atlassian Access).

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