IT Tips and Tricks

Introduction:
Although in Jira and Confluence the WebSudo, requesting the confirmation of the administrator’s password, are neat security features if you are working in a company where the chances of someone fiddling around with your computer are high. BUT in a very small company, where this risk is almost none, this feature has proven very annoying for me. So I did some research to disable these features in both Jira and Confluence.

Assumptions:
Jira Version: 7.x
Confluence: 6.x

Methods:

In Jira:

– Edit the file /opt/atlassian/jira/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/jpm.xml
– Look for the property: jira.websudo.is.disabled and set all is values to true as follows:
.....
<property>
<key>jira.websudo.is.disabled</key>
<default-value>true</default-value>
<type>boolean</type>
<admin-editable>true</admin-editable>
<sysadmin-editable>true</sysadmin-editable>
</property>
......

In Confluence

– Edit the file /opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/setenv.sh
– Close to the end where there is a list of multiple components of the variable
CATALINA_OPTS=....
CATALINA_OPTS=....
– Add the following line after this list but before the line: export CATALINA_OPTS
CATALINA_OPTS="-Dpassword.confirmation.disabled=true ${CATALINA_OPTS}"

———-
Note: After these changes Jira and Confluence need to be restarted as follows:
service jira stop
service confluence stop
service jira start
service confluence start