How do I enable the confluence-users group?
- by M. Joanis
I've got an issue with Atlassian Confluence. Normal users can't log in, but administrators can... Details below!
I manage users using an Apple Open Directory (LDAP). I created two groups: "confluence-administrators" and "confluence-users". I've added team leaders and managers to both groups, and I've added some users to "confluence-users".
Everyone in "confluence-administrators" can log in easily. People in "confluence-users" can't log in at all.
When I look at the user list (in Confluence), and select a user to examine the list of groups he or she belongs to, I can see that the Confluence Administrators are indeed members of the "confluence-administrators" group, but not a single user is a member of the "confluence-users" group. Not event the Confluence Administrators, which are members of both groups!
So I tried to have one of the "confluence-users" log in while watching the Confluence logs. Here's the result:
2012-07-05 14:50:19,698 ERROR [http-8090-11] [core.event.listener.AutoGroupAdderListener] handleEvent Could not auto add user to group: Group <confluence-users> is read-only and cannot be updated
at com.atlassian.crowd.directory.DbCachingRemoteDirectory.addUserToGroup(DbCachingRemoteDirectory.java:461)
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So it says the group group is read-only... I'm not sure why it is a problem. Well confluence-administrators too is read-only and it doesn't complain.
Some things I don't think are part of the problem:
I've synchronized Confluence with LDAP many, many times.
I have verified many times that I didn't make a typo while setting the groups on the LDAP server.
LDAP synchronization goes well. No errors in the logs (only INFO level log messages).
The user exists. Errors in the logs are different when a user doesn't exist.
Any help is most welcome!
