JIRA permissions hierarchy
JIRA manages its permissions in a hierarchical manner. Each level is more fine-grained than the one above it. For a user to gain access to a resource, for example to view an issue, he/she needs to satisfy all three levels of permission (if they are all set on the issue in question):
JIRA global permission: This permission controls the overall access rights to JIRA, for example, who can access JIRA
Project-level permission: This permission controls the project-level permissions
Issue-level security: This permission controls the view access on a per issue level
We will now look at each of the permission levels and how you can configure them to suit your requirements, starting from the most coarse-grained permission level—global permissions.
Global permissions, as the name suggests, is the highest permission level in JIRA. These are coarse-grained permissions applied globally across JIRA, controlling broad security levels such as the ability to access...
