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Your Confluence instance may include additional groups.
Anonymous Users
Confluence treats all users who do not log in when they access Confluence as being 'Anonymous'. Administrators can assign permissions to this group separately.
Overlapping group and user permissions
When a user is assigned more than one permission, the more powerful permission will prevail.
Further explanation: