JIRA permissions hierarchy
JIRA manages its permissions in a hierarchical manner. Each level is more fine-grained than the one above it. For a user to gain access to a resource, for example, to view an issue, they need to satisfy all four levels of permission (if they are all set on the issue in question):
- Application access: This defines the groups that will have access to the various applications in JIRA, for example, JIRA Software
- JIRA global permission: This permission controls the access rights functions such as overall administration
- Project-level permission: This permission controls the project-level permissions
- Issue-level security: This permission controls the view access on a per-issue level
We will now look at each of the permission levels ...
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