Export group membership

[Dmitriy Gerasimov]

Hello

I have two Jira instances: old and new. Both of them use AD as user storage. But user groups stored in JIRA Internal Directory.

Can I copy user group membership from one instance to another?

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Not from within Jira, but you can do it via the REST API. Have a look at the REST API documentation. I created a script that extracts users from specific groups, get asked from time to time to provide that data.

[Chris Dunford]

FYI, at some point in the last two weeks, this has stopped working for anyone who's not a site admin. The REST API returns "You are not authorized to perform this action. Administrator privileges are required."

This change broke some of our in-house tools.

[Steve Nguyen]

@Chris DunfordHave you found a fix for this?  I am having the same issue now.

This what I want the authenticated user (testUser) to access https://<serverName>/rest/api/2/group/member?groupname=jira-software-users

testUser is a member of jira-software-users group and is also a member of a group that is defined in the Global Permission - Browse Users permissions.

It seemed like a right setup but I still could not get it to work.

I don't want testUser to be in the Administrator group so that is out of the question.

[Chris Dunford]

@Steve Nguyen- Sadly, I did not. The Atlassian folks insisted that this never worked, but I know for a fact that it did.

I likened this to a club member not being permitted to know who the other members of the club are. Seems pretty silly.

We had to resort to putting a list of group members on an internal server so that our tools could get the info they need. This, of course, creates a permanent maintenance problem.