(info) It is not possible to 'remove' a user if the user is responsible for content on the site because Confluence will need the user information to maintain a history of pages. If you wish to prevent a user from accessing Confluence, you can 'deactivate' a user the that they can no longer log in to Confluence.

You can however, 'remove' a user if the user has not added or edited any content on the site.

To deactivate or remove a user,

  1. Go to the 'Administration Console' and click on 'Manage Users' in the left panel.
    All members of the Confluence-Users group are listed in alphabetical order (first name). To find a user, you can either browse through the pages, or do a search on the user's mail id or the group to which they belong.

  2. Click on the user link. This will display the user's current details and links to edit them.

    • Click 'Deactivate' if the user is responsible for any content on the site. Deactivating will prevent them from logging in to the site. (Only prior to 2.1, see below.)

    • Click 'Remove' if the user is not responsible for any content on the site.

This functionality was removed in Confluence 2.1.x in line with the incorporation of the new Polis library. This was done for performance reasons and we are still in the process of coming up with a more performant solution.

In the meantime, to deactivate a user, you will need to remove him/her from all groups that have currently been assigned global "Use Confluence" permission. If you have assigned "Use Confluence" permission to the specific user, you will also need to remove this. See Global Permissions Overview for how to do the latter.

Screenshot: Adding and removing users


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