Confluence LDAP - How to change all permissions for one group to another?

Question

I'm having a very large Confluence installation, where one very large group (say group A) is synchronized from LDAP. We now have a second group (say group B) that has the same users in LDAP and is synchronized with Confluence as well. We are now searching for the best way to change all permissions in Confluence associated with group A to group B. Afterwards, we aim to delete group A in LDAP. This is essentially a way to rename the group A to B.

Questions:

* Is this a proper strategy or is there a better way to achieve this?
* If it's a good way, what SQL statements do we have to perform? At the moment, I assume the tables CONTENT_PERM and SPACEPERMISSIONS are affected? Are there more?

Our environment:

* Confluence 5.1.5
* Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
* MSSQL 2008

Thank you very much in advance for any hints!

Liston Ogana_c7u2qf · Answer

Hello,

Could you provide the script you used to get this done. I have the same problem however the scrip provided in JRA-1391 is not particularly working for me.

Thank you!

Felix Grund (Scandio) · Answer

I actually solved this problem using my initial approached described in the question. All other methods seemed inadequate.

Davin Studer · Answer

You might be able to do this in a better fashin than with SQL. The official API's can do this kind of thing. I qwould recommend looking into the Confluence Command Line Interface as it implements those API's in an easy to use fashion.