Security Overview

Confluence gives you the choice to make the site as open or as closed as you wish.

There are three levels of permissions in Confluence.

Global permissions

Global permissions are site-level permissions.

This topic is covered in the Site Administrator's Guide.

The permission to create a new space or to administrate one is granted by a site administrator from the global Administration Console.

Create Space: Users with this permission can create new spaces within a Confluence site. When a space is created, the creator automatically has the 'Administrate Space' permission for that space.

Administrate Confluence: Users with this permission can perform a host of functions relating to the management of Confluence including Administration of spaces.

Space permissions

Every space has its own, independent set of permissions. These permissions determine the access settings for different users of the space.

In order to assign these permissions, a user must be a space administrator (have the 'Administrate Space' permission) for that space.

See Users and Groups to learn how these permissions are assigned.

Page Permissions

You can further set page level restrictions, if you have the permission yourself to 'Restrict Pages'.

As a tool for communication and collaboration, Confluence is best used the more users you have participating on the site.

So it's advisable to design a security system that doesn't restrict users unless you can think of a very good reason for doing so. Because Confluence tracks histories of changes, it is easy to see who has changed what, and to reverse any edits if required.

Warning

If you misconfigure a space so that nobody has access to administer it any more, you will need to have someone in the confluence-administrators group fix the permissions for you.

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