How do I disable a user using jira command line interface?

Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)
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September 11, 2012

How do I disable a jira user using the command line interface?

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Bob Swift OSS (Bob Swift Atlassian Apps)
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September 11, 2012

Currently not supported. The remote APIs in this area are lacking, so it more difficult to provide the support. Please create an issue

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May 5, 2014

It looks like this functionality has been added since this question was asked. Adding the reference here for those searching for it:

jira --action updateUser --userId "testuser1" --userFullName "Former employee" --deactivate

Taken from https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI/Examples

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Ron Winacott September 11, 2012

One way you could try is remove the user from all groups, including the magic group jira_user. Now there account is disabled and not counted in your license

CLI command removeUserFromGroup parameters userId, group

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September 11, 2012

No, I'm not looking for the old and sick way of disabling users, the way that prevents you from reenabling them because you don't know which groups they used to be belong to.

I am looking for using the "Active" option which was added to Jira 5.1

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