The People Directory provides a list of all users in your Confluence system. 

If you need to disable the People Directory set the following system properties on your application server command line:

 -Dconfluence.disable.peopledirectory.anonymous=true
  • To disable the People Directory entirely,
-Dconfluence.disable.peopledirectory.all=true

These two properties are available in Confluence 2.5.2 and later.

To remove the link on the dashboard:

Edit the <confluence-install>/confluence/decorators/global.vmd:
Comment out line 37:

<!--                    <img src="$req.contextPath/images/icons/people_directory_32.gif" align='absmiddle' height="32" width="32"> <b><a class="fontSizeDefault" href="$req.contextPath/peopledirectory.action"> $action.getText("people.directory.title")</a></b><span class="smalltext"> -    $action.getText("people.directory.description")</span><br> -->

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To remove the link in the browse menu:

  1. Unjar <confluence-install>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/confluence-2.9.x.jar
  2. Edit <jar-root>/plugins/global-browse-sections.xml
  3. Comment out lines 14-18 
    <!--
    <web-item key="global-people" name="People Directory" section="system.browse/global" weight="10">
        <label key="people.directory.title" />
        <link linkId="people-directory-link">/peopledirectory.action</link>
        <condition class="com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.descriptor.web.conditions.NotSharedModeCondition"/>
    </web-item>
   -->
  4. Create a directory in <confluence-install>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes called plugins
  5. Copy global-browse-sections.xml to <confluence-install>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/plugins/
  6. Restart Confluence

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