This page last changed on Jul 06, 2010 by alui.
 | You only need to follow the instructions on this page if you are using JIRA for user management. It disables all the group and user management screens in Confluence.
You can choose to enable this setting for Crowd or LDAP user management, if you are happy to manage users and groups outside Confluence. |
Enabling the "external user management" setting will make user and group management screens read-only within Confluence.
This will also prevent users from signing up to the site, as well as editing their name, email and password particulars from within Confluence.
You need to have System Administrator permissions in order to perform this function.
To disable management of users and groups within Confluence,
Go to the Confluence 'Administration Console'. To do this:
- Open the 'Browse' menu and select 'Confluence Admin'. The 'Administrator Access' login screen will be displayed.
- Enter your password and click 'Confirm'. You will be temporarily logged into a secure session to access the 'Administration Console'.
- Select 'Security Configuration' in the left-hand panel.
- In the 'Security Configuration' screen, click 'Edit'.
- Check the 'External user management' checkbox.
- Click 'Save'.
 | Confluence installations using Crowd for user and group management: If Crowd's directory permissions are configured so that Confluence cannot update the Crowd directories, then Confluence's external user management setting must be turned on. Otherwise, a 'System Error' will occur when Confluence attempts to write data into Crowd. For more information about integrating Crowd with Confluence, please refer to Integrating Crowd with Atlassian Confluence. |
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