NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report.

      If you are using Confluence's internal directory and you delete the group confluence-users, when you try to create a new user you get the error:

      com.atlassian.confluence.core.InsufficientPrivilegeException: User [admin] does not have the required privileges.
      at com.atlassian.confluence.user.DefaultUserAccessor.addMembership(DefaultUserAccessor.java:118)

      According to the manual:

      confluence-users: This is the default group for all new users. Permissions you assign to this group will be assigned to all newly signed-up users of Confluence.

      If this group is needed to create users (in the internal directory) Confluence should not allow its deletion.

      Other approaches to this issue could be to allow user creation without any membership or allow to change the default membership for new users.

            [CONFSERVER-26864] Deleting confluence-users group lead to problems

            usg.60859-0804161861110748 added a comment -

            Same here...

            usg.60859-0804161861110748 added a comment - Same here...

            I just run into the same problem: I deleted the "confluence-users" group, because we have our own LDAP Group for wiki users. I thought: Why maintaining two groups.
            The help did not say that this is forbidden and leads to failures.

            Then I wanted to add a new user and this did not work, I got the "meaningless" error message and raised a support ticket. That support ticked yielded an automated answer to this ticket (actually a good job Atlassian!)

            Henning Köhler added a comment - I just run into the same problem: I deleted the "confluence-users" group, because we have our own LDAP Group for wiki users. I thought: Why maintaining two groups. The help did not say that this is forbidden and leads to failures. Then I wanted to add a new user and this did not work, I got the "meaningless" error message and raised a support ticket. That support ticked yielded an automated answer to this ticket (actually a good job Atlassian!)

            The simplest solution would be to disallow deletion of "confluence-users", as far as I'm aware.

            Dmitriy Malina added a comment - The simplest solution would be to disallow deletion of "confluence-users", as far as I'm aware.

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