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Delegated Groups (Since 1.6.2)
Delegated Groups allow system admins to give Users within specific Groups the ability to SU into authorised specified Users and Users within authorised Specified Groups. The difference between specified Group access and Delegated Groups access is that specified Groups can SU to anybody whereas users within a Delegated Group can only SU to a user that they have been explicitly authorised to SU into.
Enable Delagted Delegated Groups to be able to maniupulate Delegated Groups and allow Jira users within Delegated Groups to SU to authorised Jira users by ticking the checkbox and saving the SU for Jira configuration as shown below.
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From the example shown below, all Users within the Jira Group group1 will be able to SU into the Jira User, user2 but nobody else as no other Users or Groups have been authorised.
Note that anybody in group1 can SU into user2 but user2 will not be able to SU into anybody in group1 but anybody in group1 can SU into user2.
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When a user which is authorised is an inactive user, they will appear with the DEACTIVATED flag, as shown below:
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