Modify Global Permission Groups in bulk

Ste Wright

Hi All,

Has anyone removed Groups from a Global Permission in bulk?

We have:

• A custom (app-based) global permission, giving access to an app
• ~30-50K groups in the global permission
• Jira Data Center

We'd like to:

• Remove all groups, aside from jira-software-users, and a few other platform-wide groups

^ Has anyone done this before without doing it manually? We have ScriptRunner, if that helps!

Ste

PD Sheehan

Assuming this app global permission are stored like all the other global permissions, you should be able to use https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/8.13.6/com/atlassian/jira/security/GlobalPermissionManager.html

With Scriptrunner console, print the list of permission keys:

import com.atlassian.jira.security.GlobalPermissionManager
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

return ComponentAccessor.getComponent(GlobalPermissionManager).allGlobalPermissions*.key

If you can identify the key for you app that you want to modify, plug it in here:

import com.atlassian.jira.security.GlobalPermissionManager
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.permission.GlobalPermissionKey

def PERMISSIONKEY_TO_CLEANUP = 'XXX'
def GROUPS_TO_KEEP = ['jira-software-users', 'other-group-name']

def gpm = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(GlobalPermissionManager)
gpm.allGlobalPermissions.each{ perm->
   if(perm.key == PERMISSIONKEY_TO_CLEANUP){
      gpm.getGroupsWithPermission(GlobalPermissionKey.of(perm.key)).each{group->
         if(!GROUPS_TO_KEEP.contains(group.name)){
            gpm.removePermission(perm, group.name)
         }
      }
   }
}

I haven't actually tested this or used this manager before, I just found it by searching the Javadoc... so be careful with it.