How to restrict certain users from viewing certain projects?

[Ashish Ojha]

Or How to limit the users from viewing certain projects?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

It is done using the permissions schemes , specifically Browse project permission. Note that you cannot deny a user the permission using this, you can only GRANT permission.

So if you want to deny a user the permission, make sure you create a group or project role in which the user is not a member and grant that group or role the permission to browse the project.

[DavidV]

Hi Ashish,

The biggest barrier to preventing certain users from browsing projects is the fact that most projects by default are configured to have jira-users as their default user set. So to dilligently have only certain users view certain project every time you create a new project you should also assign a specific group of users that can view that project (something other than jira-users).

As Jobin says Permission schemes actually determine who will be able to actually view your projects, although I have found that the default permissions are usually pretty good. They create 3 categories of users: Users, Developers and Administrators that can be configured for each project, by assigning the correct users and groups into these project roles:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA043/Managing+Project+Roles

Hope that helps.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You might also want to look at issue security schemes to restrict users viewing certain issues in project where they have access.