Installed Confluence on the Same JIRA Server, how to separate user management

[Supriya]

I Installed Confluence on the same JIRA Server. I have 50 JIRA licenses and 10 Confluence licenses. During the installation I selected same JIRA User management.

After the installation is completed now Confluence is asking me to delete the excess users.

If I delete or disable these users in Confluence the same change is getting reflected in JIRA.

I don't want to delete these users in JIRA and I want to delete some users just from confluence. How do I do that?

[Phill Fox · Accepted solution]

At the moment you are using the same default set of users for both instances. The solution is to create in Jira a group called confluence-users, add in to this group the users who need access to Confluence. 

Then in Confluence change your settings for access to this new confluence-users group. 

Individuals can be in both jira-users and confluence-users or only in one of them. 

It may seem a little weird to control the user access in Jira but if you think of Jira as also being your user management tool for Confluence then it makes more sense. 

Phill

[Supriya]

Hi Phil,

Thank you for your response. I created a group for Confluence users and added 5 users to that group.

Where exactly in the settings should I change the access inside confluence? I couldn't find anything under users / user sign-up Options.

Thank you,
Supriya

[Supriya]

Hi Phil, I was able to change it under permissions. Thank you.

[Phill Fox]

@Supriya Glad you found the solution for anyone else who stumbles across this page, the reference https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/understanding-permission-in-confluence-979403839.html explains how to set the different permissions in Confluence.