Is it possible to give read only access to administrative functions within JIRA?

Steven Kahrs September 22, 2015

We have system administrators who sometimes need to better understand various configurations and settings within our JIRA environment and it would be helpful if we could give them read only access to administrative functions and configuration functions within JIRA (read only in part because of separation of duties considerations within our organization).  How can we do that?

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Deniz Oğuz
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September 22, 2015

unfortunately it is not possible. You can't do it with a plugin too, because underlying JIRA API does not have such concept. https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/latest/com/atlassian/jira/permission/GlobalPermissionKey.html

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September 22, 2015

No.  You're either an admin or you are not.

Project users can see the config of their projects though.  Everything else, you'll need your admins to extract and document.

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September 22, 2015

You may also want to take a look at the "Global Permissions" page where in you can see what 'user groups' can do and not do. As you can see "JIRA System Administrators" and "JIRA Administrators" permissions have a slight difference on what they can do on the admin level. It's not exactly what you want or need, but worth noting.

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