How do I merge users and groups in Jira and Confluence?

[Kris W]

We use both Jira and Confluence and started using them before the closer user integration features of the most recent versions.

Now we'd like to enable users to use a single sign-on and have the same account in both apps.

I've set up Jira and Confluence to use the same (Jira) User Directory and to be trusted apps. However, the confluence-users and confluence-administrators group in Jira do not correspond to the same groups in Confluence.

I logged into Confluence as an administrator and tried adding a Jira admin user to the confluence-users and confluence-administrators groups, but I got an error message:

Failed to modify group memberships.

Questions:

How do I merge the users in the Confluence directory into the shared Jira directory?

Once I've done that, how do I add them to groups within Confluence?

How do I make sure the confluence-users group in Jira is the same as the confluence-users group in Confluence?

[Gregory Sudderth · Accepted solution]

1) You can use something like OpenLDAP and point them both at it

2) You can make Confluence use JIRA's users (but you'll have to fixup your content afterwards):

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+Crowd+or+JIRA+for+User+Management

3) Buy Crowd :)

G.

[Kris W]

Client wanted single sign-on so turns out Crowd was required.