How to bulk deactivate users in Confluence using CLI

This article explains how to bulk deactivate users in Confluence instance using Confluence Command Line Interface.

Instructions

Create a CSV file with the list of users as shown in the screenshot below:
Write an action with runFromCsv and updateUser actions together to deactivate multiple users in a Confluence instance. Please see the example action below:
```
--action runFromCsv --common "--action updateUser --deactivate" --file "user.csv"
```
This action runs and disables the users in Confluence instance.

updateUser action is only available for the server version of Confluence and not available for Cloud version of Confluence.