Avoid importing groups from Active Directory but link users with the regular JIRA groups.

Francois M. FAS

Hello,

I've connected JIRA 5.0.1 to our MS Active Directory by creating a new user directory in JIRA. All my users from the AD are well added to this new JIRA directory.

However groups linked to those imported users come from the AD and are not the groups previously defined in JIRA (such jira-users, jira-developers, …).

Is there a way to link existing group from JIRA and to avoid importing the groups from the Active Directory when I'm importing users from AD?

Thank you.

Septa Cahyadiputra

Hi there,

In order to use JIRA groups for your LDAP users you will need to configure your LDAP directory to use "Read Only with Local Group" permission setting.

In order to avoid your directory to synchronize the LDAP groups into your JIRA, you will need to create a search filter that can't retrieve any groups. For example using "DummyValue" such as

(objectCategory=DummyValue)

In order to configure a default group(s) for all of your LDAP users, you could use "Adding Users to Groups Automatically". This feature will allow your LDAP users to be added into the configured local group(s) automatically during their first log-in.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,
Septa Cahyadiputra