How to deactivate Confluence users in bulk using CLI

This article explains how to deactivate users in bulk on a Confluence instance using Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI).

Instructions

1. Create a CSV file named user.csv with the list of users as required.
   

2. Write a command using the runFromCsv action and an updateUser common action to deactivate each user listed in the CSV file from the Confluence instance.

   --action runFromCsv --file "user.csv" --common "--action updateUser --deactivate"