Project permissions

Before we start working with projects in JIRA, we need to first understand a little bit about permissions. Permission is a big topic and we will be covering that in detail in Chapter 8, Securing JIRA. For now, we will briefly talk about the permissions related to creating and deleting, administering, and browsing projects.

In JIRA, users with the JIRA administrator permission will be able to create and delete projects. By default, users in the jira-administrators group have this permission, so the administrator user we have created during the installation process in Chapter 1, Getting Started with JIRA, will be able to create new projects, and we will be referring to this user and any other users with this permission as

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