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Editing User Details

Added by Vidya Madabushi, last edited by Sarah Maddox on Jul 03, 2008  (view change) show comment
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To update a user's details,

  1. First, go to the user management screen for the user concerned. There are two ways to do this:
    • Either,
      • Go to the user's Profile and click the 'Administer User' link on the user's profile screen. (This link is available in Confluence 2.8.2 and later.)
    • Or,

      Go to the 'Administration Console' view. To do this:

      • Go to a page in the space and choose 'Administration' from the 'User' menu, which is labelled with your Confluence username. The 'Administration Console' view will open.
      • Select the link 'Manage Users' in the left-hand panel.
      • Locate the user by doing a search on the username or the groups to which they belong.
      • Click the user link.
  2. Now you should be able to see the user's current details and links allowing you to edit them.
    • View Profile — View the user's profile.
    • Edit Groups — Add or remove this user from a group.
    • Edit Details — Edit the user's name and email address. Changing a user's username is not supported through the application, see Changing Usernames for other solutions.
    • Set Password — Edit the user's password details.
    • Deactivate — Deactivation is an alternative to removing a user. It is not possible to remove a user if the user is responsible for content on the site. The reason is that Confluence will need the user information to maintain a history of the pages they have updated. In this case, you can deactivate the user so that they can no longer log in to Confluence.
    • Remove — You can remove a user permanently if the user has not added or edited any content on the site.

Deactivating users (unavailable) : This functionality was removed in Confluence 2.1.x. See Removing a User for more information.

Screenshot : User Details


RELATED TOPICS
Adding a New User
Adding or Removing a User from a Group
Editing User Details
Global Permissions Overview
Removing a User
Setting up Anonymous Access
Spam Prevention (Captcha)

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  1. Apr 04, 2007

    Julia says:

    I am using Confluence 2.3.3 standalone and my user details only shows View Profi...

    I am using Confluence 2.3.3 standalone and my user details only shows View Profile. I am the administrator of the site and I can't edit any user details for other users or myself. Are there other permissions that need to be set?

    1. Apr 04, 2007

      Agnes Ro says:

      This is probably because you have external user management

      This is probably because you have external user management enabled.

  2. Jan 02, 2008

    Anonymous says:

    how do I rename a user or is this a similar problem to jira where there's no eas...

    how do I rename a user - or is this a similar problem to jira where there's no easy way to do it without exporting the DB to text, editing and importing?

    1. Jan 02, 2008

      Paul M says:

      p.s. I have now registered and logged in, so this was my question\!

      p.s. I have now registered and logged in, so this was my question!

    2. Jan 02, 2008

      Paul Curren says:

      I'm afraid you can't yet rename a user in Confluence. There is an open issue her...

      I'm afraid you can't yet rename a user in Confluence. There is an open issue here to implement the feature.

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