How to prevent new users from accessing "Jira Administration - Projects"?

Question

I work for a company that has multiple projects for different clients.  At present we have some clients that want to be able to login to their specific project.  But they should only have access to their project and not see information on others.

After some research I have found the way to setup new users in Jira with separate permission schemes and User Groups which I then attach to the project.  This has done most of the setup I am looking for but Im still having one issue. Every user I setup still has access to the Jira Administration - Projects option on the top right of the screen.

How do I limit a new user from having access to that option?

Ollie Guan · Answer

Hi @Matt Denius,

You can refer to @Joe Pitt's suggestion and check the permission configuration scheme.

In addition, also pay attention to the Global Permissions in the system configuration.

Hope this helps.

Joe Pitt · Answer

the permission scheme for the admin projects must include them somehow. Find one of their IDs and look at every group they are in and then look for the group in the permission scheme. If you're using project roles make sure any group they are in doesn't have permission in the project roles for the admin projects.

Matt Denius · Answer

Ollie,

Thank you for responding.  This did not solve the issue of the client users still being able to see the Jira Administration - Projects option.   These users are not designated Project leaders or Project Admins.

What is curious though is that when I login as a client user I can still access the "Projects" option but when I look at the projects not all of them are listed.  I don't know why some projects are not displaying (which is what I want) and others are displaying.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.