Chapter 5. JIRA Security

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Granting access to JIRA
  • Granting JIRA System Administrator access
  • Controlling access to a project
  • Controlling access to JIRA issue operations
  • Allowing users to control permissions
  • Restricting access to projects based on reporter permissions
  • Setting up password policies
  • Capturing electronic signatures for changes
  • Changing the duration of the remember me cookies
  • Changing the default session timeout

Introduction

Security is one of the most important aspects of any information system. With JIRA, this includes managing different levels of access, and ensuring that information is accessible only to authorized users.

In this chapter, we will cover the different levels of access control ...

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