How to hide change password form for users connected via read-only Active Directory users?

Question

We have Confluence connected to a Crowd directory that is coupled to ActiveDirectory for authentication only (i.e. it's a read-only connection to AD).

Users of this directory are trying to change their password using the Confluence password form, and this results in a null pointer exception.

Is it possible to hide the change password form for these users?

We have another internal Crowd directory which is read/write, and for its users the change-password form should not be hidden in Confluence.

Paula Manildi1 · Answer

Added bug - go vote - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34025

Paula Manildi1 · Answer

We need this also. It actually seems like a bug in Confluence. When will it be addressed?

dchisholm · Answer

To clarify, I'm looking for a way to do this in Confluence and not JIRA.  I'd like Confluence to detect that the ActiveDirectory authenticated user is connected to a read-only user-directory and display an appropriate message while allowing regular (read-write user directory) users change their password.