Duplicate Groups When Integrating Confluence with Crowd

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Symptoms

After integrating Crowd and Confluence, duplicate sets of Confluence groups are displayed.

Cause

Both the hibernate repository and Crowd repository are active.

Resolution

Remove or comment out the repository below in your atlassian-user.xml file to disable the built-in hibernate repository. For more help see Integrating Crowd with Atlassian Confluence.

1 <hibernate name="Hibernate Repository" key="hibernateRepository" description="Hibernate Repository" cache="true"/>
Updated on April 15, 2025

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