Migrate users from one directory to another ... documentation

Question

I just found out about this option in JIRA when connecting a delegating ldap user directory.

(Admin -> User Directory -> Migrate users from one directory to another ...)

I have been looking for the documentation, but didn't find it - probably I'm not looking in the right place.

Renjith Pillai · Answer

Sorry to say that so far, the documentation is not written for that and there is an open case for it for sometime - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-28986

It has a short writeup on what is supported and what is not.

francis · Answer

That's bad news.  I tried it (on 5.2.2) and it did convert 2400+ users correctly, but this was on a test machine.  I'm wondering what would happen when we do the production upgrade.

JamieA · Answer

Yeah... I would like to know exactly what happens under the covers. I tried this, it took forever with no feedback, so I shut jira down. This leads to all directories being disabled and no way to log in, other than modding records in the db.