Restricting user to access projects

[Hari Prasath P]

How to restrict an user from accessing a specific project in JIRA Software?

[Jack Brickey]

You need to remove the user from any group that has permissions to the project. You can do this by creating a new group for the project and exclude them from the group or you can remove them from the group that currently has access to the project. Keep in mind that the later likely will impact them in other projects.

[Hari Prasath P]

Hi Jack,

We tried as above. But, has impact on all projects. Cannot add user/group permission to a specific project? Is there any other options?

[Jack Brickey]

I would refer you to the documentation. Here is one overview article. It is all quite doable just need to be diligent about how you setup permissions for each project as Joe eludes to. By default permissions are pretty open and when users get added to Jira they typically go into a common group, e.g. developers or jira-software-users and that group is given permissions on each project. It would be a challenge for me to guide you w/o really having access to your instance and spending time assessing things.

[Jose M.]

The user must not be in any group or role with permission to browse the project.

[Joe Pitt]

JIRA permissions

First, by default JIRA has a horrible permission scheme that violates security best practices by allowing everyone that can logon to do just about everything.

JIRA works by GRANTING access. You can't restrict access. By default, it grants access to the group used to logon (see Global permissions to see the "can use" groups and admin groups).  This is where users are getting their access.

1. The FIRST thing you need to do to get control is to remove any groups with logon privileges from the permission scheme unless you absolutely want everyone to have that permission.
2. Then I suggest you setup Project Roles for the various functions like, tester, QA, Browse Only, etc.
3. By using project roles, one permission scheme will cover all projects. The project admin controls project role membership
4. If the project leads want everyone that can logon access to the project they can add the logon group to a project role with the desired permissions.

This may be a big effort, but it will pay off down the road by making it easy to control access.

Most of the 'old timers' use project roles. It meets the best practice for security and gives complete control to the project lead for access to their project. JIRA comes with many project roles, but you can add more if you have a special need.