As a manager, I'm storing certain organizational information in Jira in user groups. However, the group browser is available only to jira-administrators. I'd like to make the Group Browser available to a wider audience without having to make that audience members of jira-administrators. Is there a way to do that? I checked the configuration options from the GUI and couldn't find anything relevant.

I don't see any security risk in allowing users to browse the group lists. In fact, there is value in this. We link Jira closely with our internal documentation, and we have designated specialties (e.g. Unix, Windows, Firewalls) that link to projects and components within Jira. It's incredibly useful for my staff to know who is in a group with them on a particular specialty. For example, "I'm in the firewall group. Who else is in the group and who is the leader?" We put that information into the groups within Jira. It would be nice to have hyperlinks from the documentation to Jira to display the group list, and that's what I was trying to do when I found this problem. So, the feature request would be to create a group browser and then have a general option in Jira as to which groups could use that browser. In my environment, I'd permission that to all jira-users.