Security overview

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

So, we recommend you design a security system that gives people the ability to do anything that you can't think of a good reason to restrict them from doing. Because Confluence tracks histories of changes, it is easy to see who has changed what, and to reverse any edits if required.

However, Confluence gives you the choice to make the site as open or closed as you want.

There are three levels of permissions across Confluence:

Global permissions

Global Permissions are site level permissions.

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

What you do need to know is that the permission to create a new space and to administrate a space 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 Space: Users with this permission can perform a host of functions relating to the management of a space.

Space permissions

Every space has its own, independant set of permissions. In order to assign these permissions, a user must have the 'Administrate Space' permission for that space.

Page Permissions