If your user management is being handled outside of Confluence by JIRA you will need to turn on the external management option from the Administration Console.
If your user management is being done with LDAP, you must not turn on external user management, although users and groups which exist in your LDAP repository cannot be modified.
Activating an external user management sytem will remove all user and group management options from Confluence. The assignment of permissions to groups and users is still carried out within Confluence, but the creation of groups and users is not.
This will also disable users from signing up to the site, as well as editing their name, email and password particulars from within Confluence.
To activate an external user management system,
- Go to the 'Administration Console', click on 'General Configuration' in the left panel.
- In the 'Security and Privacy' screen, click 'Edit'.
- Select 'On' beside 'External User Management'.
- Click 'Save'.
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