Adding local jira group to users profile

Question

Hello,

We push all JIRA access via AD and MIM, however, one of the groups that we need to manually add users to is the jira-users group.  Yes, this is a local to JIRA software, however, anyone have experiencing automatically adding users to this group via either AD or any other means?

Thanks in advance.

Kishan Sharma · Answer

Hi @Scott McDonald

There is a REST API endpoint you can use to add user to a group. You can also refer this thread for a possible solution of adding users via sql query, if you have access to the database.

Charlie Misonne · Answer

Hi Scott,

If jira-users is a local group in Jira I don't see how you would add users to that group via AD.

I'm assuming you are using the "read only with local group" options which allows you to add the synced users to Jira groups?

In the directory configuration there is a setting "Default Group Memberships" where you can specify a group that users will be added to as soon as they login.
Of course that means all synced users will eventually consume a Jira license.

You could also take a look at the Jira REST API and create your own script to add users to the jira-users groups based on certain AD properties.

Hope this helps!