User management delegation to Space Admins

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

I’m excited to let you know that the latest release of Crowd Data Center features the ability for you to delegate user admin management to space admins, with the ‘delegated group level admin’ feature.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Crowd Data Center, it offers one place to manage your users, groups and directories and easily integrate your identity infrastructure across all self-hosted Atlassian products

I’m leaving this suggestion open, as I appreciate that this only provides a solution to those of you who currently have, or are considering investing in Crowd. However, to set expectations, this isn’t something we’re currently planning on working on within Confluence Server.

Best
Jenny | Senior Product Manager, Confluence Server

Current options as suggested by Atlassian [Comment by David Soul on 22nd Oct]:

1. Install the Custom Space User Management (CSUM) Plugin to allow space administrators to manage users at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Custom+Space+User+Management+Plugin

At last I end up in developing this CSUM plugin (version 1.0). Version 2.0 (currently rc3 release) is much better with many requested features and better UI with very active contributions from Gary, Ren, Andy

2. Install the Invite Plugin to allow space administrators to invite users by email from http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Invite+Plugin

3. Use external user management such as LDAP or Active Directory and allow space administrator to grant users through there

4. Grant site administration rights

5. Grant site admin rights to a specific user and ask space admins to delegate their user administration tasks to this person