Page access using credentials

[Michael Sarafidis]

Hi,

We want to share some pages from our Confluence to our Site under members area. We do not want to be anonymous access because we do not want the URL to be shareable outside the member area. Thus we need to create a user that will have access to specific pages from different spaces (not the whole spaces). We also do not want the user to be able to change its personal settings (ex. password).
Finally, we do not want our members to know the user's credentials, thus we need to make a post request using the confluence API in order to access the pages.

Could you please tell us if all this is possible and also give us a hint of how to implement it?

Thanks in advance.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

This isn't going to work the way you think it is, and @Jen Roberts instincts are right.

For a user to see a Confluence page, they must have read access to the space.  You need to set up the spaces so that they all have a public and private sections, so that your user can see the right pages, and then restrict all the private areas in any spaces you've let the user see.

If you don't use anonymous access, you'll need to have a user who can see the spaces and then public pages.  People logging in as that person will be able to modify the passwords and account settings.

So, on to your API suggestion - yes, that's the only way.  Have a read-only user, then write something that scrapes the pages you want to publish over REST and load them into another web-server as static pages (consider a regular refresh).

[Jen]

In my experience with the Confluence Cloud, this request would need to be done manually - meaning each page would need to be set - Restrictions/Access (any open Spaces would need to be set to Restrictive as to keep the Said User outside).  

I'll be following your question as to learn if other options are available!