We are unable to change our LDAP authentication directory as users loose their group memberships.
Please implement the feature JIRA has whereby a new LDAP directory can be added and then using the built in feature, the old LDAP directory can be mapped to the new.
This makes the process so much simpler.

Please Atlassian, make this possible for Confluence as you made this possible for Jira!!

We would need this feature as well urgently. Came across the scenario that one of my clients decided for Confluence as Wiki and against Jira (because of lack of extensive mail-handling support) as Helpdesk Solution. Now I have to recreate all Users/Groups again in Confluence.

Our Knowledge Base article, Migrating Users and Groups from JIRA or Crowd Directories to a Locally Managed Directroy may help some people who are encountering this problem.

Some thougths on this issue. Using some scripting techniques and the soap api, users can be extracted from confluence and stored in an ldap server or vice versa, however it seems that the password hash is not transferrable. Crowd has the ability to import users from Confluence ut only to an internal directory, using the Atlassian-SHA password encryption https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Importing+Users+from+Atlassian+Confluence.

This feature would be very useful to have. Please keep it a priority.

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That's a must have! It currently prevents us from migrating Confluence to LDAP auth.

We also have come across this issue, we are in the scenario described by Alexander Seith. We started with internal directory only, no LDAP auth and then were requested by corporate to look into LDAP authentication but we need to retain internal group management.

The solutions proposed in forums and other JIRA issues talk about manually editing the database, which is not really ideal .. Guess we will just wait until this issue is resolved.

This feature is something our customers ask us regulary. I would love to see this implemented, because our customers often start in small scale meaning no integration with LDAP or whatsoever and then growing into a company-wide, mission-critical application with hundreds and thousands of users. At the latest now their IT desires to manage all users and groups outside of Confluence and this feature would be really handy to ease this migration.

Regards

Alex