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 doesn't restrict a user unless you can think of a very good reason for it. 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 in 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 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 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

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