This page last changed on Feb 23, 2011 by smaddox.

A user directory is a place where you store information about users and groups. User information includes the person's full name, username, password, email address and other personal information. Group information includes the name of the group, the users that belong to the group, and possibly groups that belong to other groups.

The internal directory stores user and group information in the Confluence database. You can also connect to external user directories, and to Atlassian Crowd and JIRA as directory managers.

Configuring User Directories in Confluence

To configure your Confluence user directories:

  1. 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'.
  2. Click 'User Directories' in the left-hand panel.

Connecting to a Directory

You can add the following types of directory servers and directory managers:

You can add as many external user directories as you need. Note that you can define the order of the directories. This determines which directory Confluence will search first, when looking for user and group information. See Managing Multiple Directories.

Enabling, Disabling and Removing Directories

You can enable or disable a directory at any time. If you disable a directory, your configuration details will remain but the application will not recognise the users and groups in that directory.

You have to disable a directory before you can remove it. Removing a directory will remove the details from the database.

Screenshot above: Configuring user directories

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