Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
How to do it…
Proceed with the following steps to create a user account in JIRA:
1. Log in to JIRA as a JIRA administrator.
2. Navigate to
Administration
|
User Management
|
Users
.
3. Click on the
Create User
button.
4. Fill in the new user details and click on
Create
.
Field
Value
This is a unique identifier for the user. This is what the user will use to log in to JIRA. You can use formats such
as
firstname.lastname
or the user e-mail to ensure uniqueness.
Username
Since JIRA 6, the username can be changed after it is set.
This is the password for the user to authenticate. You need to leave this blank for JIRA to generate a random
password.
Password
Confirm
This is to repeat the password.
Full Name
This is the full name of the user.
Email
This is the e-mail address of the user.
This sends an e-mail to the user (based on the
Email
field) with a link to reset their password.
Send Notifica-
tion Email
This requires JIRA to have an outgoing mail server setup.
The previous fields in the table will create a normal user account. By default, the user will
be added to the
jira-users
group. If you have set up other groups for the
JIRA Users
global
permission, then the new user will be added to those groups. The following screenshot
shows a normal user account:
