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Confusion regarding enabling "External User Management" option in General Configuration menu when integrating with LDAP

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      Users are confused with the "External User Management" function provided in Confluence's Administration menu. In Confluence's Administration menu, the Help Tips located on the right hand side stated that:

      > External User Management:
      > Enable this option if you are delegating your user management to JIRA, LDAP or any other user management system.
      > Default: OFF

      This suggest that this function should be enabled even when integrating LDAP. However, in the following documentation, it states:

      > If your user management is being done with LDAP, you must not turn on external user management, although users and groups which exist in your LDAP repository cannot be modified

      http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Activating+External+User+Management

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              pcurren Paul Curren
              tcheah Tony Cheah Tong Nyee [Atlassian]
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