How to prevent project leads from adding users

Question

Hi everyone,

I have a problem with my licenses.

I have a license limit at 100 users. My counter sets right now on 90 current active users.

I saw that there are users that are in JIRA but don't work anymore with JIRA.

You can put users into the JIRA local directory, but we are using an Active Directory. I thought to disable the local user directory, but with users from outside our FOD that do tests and has to have access to JIRA. It is not smart to disable the local directory.

So i want to know how i can delete users that surely don't work anymore with JIRA. I mean deleting users so it affects the license counter.

Thanks and kind regards

Wim

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

You really don't want your project leads having admin rights, they can (and usually do) make a right mess of your Jira.  Admins should be a very small group of people - 3 to 10 at most

Udo Brand · Answer

So the problem is that project leads are in the Jira-administrator group, that is why they can add users (to the Jira Internal Directory). If the project leads would be normal jira-users they still could manage the project (via administer project permission) but they would not be able anymore to add users. Then the only way to add users would be as you said via the admins.

Wim4 · Answer

Project leads are in the AD in the Jira-administrators group.They have to manage only the projects. They must ask the jira-admins to add users to JIRA (Active Directory)