Does JIRA have the concept of an 'Everyone' or 'Authenticated Users' group?

Question

We sync with Active Directory for our users and groups. Our organization does not have a group that contains everyone. I need to grant access to our Insight schema for everyone, and access is granted via groups. Our AD team is hesitant to add everyone (~12,000 people) to a group insisting they use the special 'Authenticated Users' group in such cases and I should, too, but it is not a real group.

Has anyone ever run in to this, or do you just create groups when you need groups? :)

Jeff Vail · Answer

I got that from this: http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/understanding-authenticated-users-group, and I can't seem to pull that 'group' in to Jira.  It is used often in the Windows environment, and I think it is relegated to that.

In this case, we are applying permissions to the Riada Insight Jira app, and it requires groups as it is Jira-global and not tied to a project.  I agree, generally in Jira, we avoid groups, too.

I'll press the issue and get them to make the group.  That's one main reason AD is there for, after all!  :)

Thanks!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

It relies on it.  For each Jira application, you have to name at least one group that says "can log in".

I'm not sure what you mean by "it is not a real group" though.

I tend to avoid groups, access by role (inside Jira) is a far better way to manage users.