May I remove "Use Confluence" permissions from the default "confluence-users" list?

[Sebastien Etorre]

Hi,

we are going to have both Employees and third party Clients having access to Spaces in our Confluence.

We want to be 100% certain a Client may not mistakenly access to Employee only Spaces. i.e. Each user should be explicitly flagged as "Employee" or "External", and the default "confluence-users" list should have no permissions whatsoever.

When I go to "Edit Global Permissions", most checkboxes are greyed out, including the "Use Confluence" one. I am an Admin though.

Thanks for your help !

Sebastien

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You can remove it, but you must replace it with groups covering everyone who needs to be able to log in (i.e Employee and External)

As a system admin, you should be able to do this.  You will need to add the replacement groups to the permission before removing the confluence-users from it.

[Sebastien Etorre]

Hi Nic,

thanks for the lightning fast response !

The thing is, my Edit Global Permissions seems to be a pretty "closed" screen. I can't add lists at the Global level, can only change some of the permissions... but I am in edit mode, so I do have the full permission required? I'm indeed part of the "site-admins" group.

I'm missing a point here... :-(

Thanks for your help,

Sebastien

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ah, "site admin" implies Cloud, where you don't have the right to change some global permissions.

I don't think you can change this on Cloud, so the closest you can get is to remove "confluence user" from all space permissions and use your other groups separately

[Sebastien Etorre]

Many thanks Nic, just saved me hours of fighting the platform. Not the first time I get caught in Cloud vs Server discrepancies. Sometimes documentation is ambiguous (and sometimes I’m just lousy at this).

I’ll (painfully) manage at the Space level.

Have a nice day.

Sebastien