While it is possible to make a group in Atlassian Crowd active or passive, they are still synchronized with the connected Confluence instance. In Confluence there is no option for a state like active or passive, so I assume it is active there anyway.
So what is the point of setting the status in Crowd?
Difference between active and passive groups in Atlassian Crowd
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Best Answer
It seems to have turned out that although it is possible to set permissions for groups within the Confluence application, the groups are only a summary for the users and the permissions are not set at group level but are forwarded to the user level. I think Atlassian has created a workaround for enabling and disabling groups by simply hiding the group name when setting permissions. In reality, the group still exists and forwards permissions to the group members.