How to grant a user access that they can only view one project?

David Hambardzu

Hi All,

For the life of me this is driving me nuts. I am trying to give specific users an access so they can only view one project instead of all the ones we have. I have tried all different solutions that was posted but none of them worked. I don't know why something like this is so difficult and frustrating when it is one of the features that people use a lot. Please can someone list step by step instructions as to how to do this?

 

Thanks!

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

It's because Atlassian distribute JIRA with an open default model that doesn't suit those of us who need to restrict projects.

By default, there's a group for "users who can log in".  jira-users.  It's named in the Global Permissions as that.  The default permission scheme then says "Browse project: role of users".  Those two are fine on their own, but the bit that's wrong is that they then include jira-users in the role of users by default.  So every new project is set up with jira-users able to see it. 

The best approach is to unpick that.  Go to admin -> roles and remove jira-users from the default membership.  Then, go over every project and remove jira-users from every "users" role (and, frankly, anywhere else it is used in projects) adding back only the users you want to see that project (via individuals or other groups)

Once that's done, new users will be able to log in, but see nothing until they're explicitly added to the project