This page last changed on Mar 09, 2011 by bmallow.

If a user has not added or edited any content on the site, you can remove the user from Confluence.

It is not possible to remove a user if the user has contributed content, for example, if they have added a page or blog post, or edited or commented on an existing page. The reason is that Confluence needs the user information to maintain a history of pages. If you wish to prevent such a user from accessing Confluence, you can deactivate the user.

  • Deactivated users can no longer log in to Confluence.
  • Deactivating a user will not remove the content created by them from the site.
  • Deactivated users do not count towards your license count. (See the notes below.)

To remove a user

  1. Go to the user management screen for the user concerned. The quickest way is to go to the user's Profile and click the 'Administer User' link.
  2. Click 'Remove'.


To deactivate a user:

  1. Remove the user from all groups that have the global 'Can Use' permission. Click 'Edit Groups' to remove the person from the group(s).
  2. If the specific user has the global 'Can Use' permission, you will also need to remove this permission from the user.

Screenshot above: Adding and removing users to/from groups

Notes

  • Multiple user directories:

    You may define multiple user directories in Confluence, so that Confluence looks in more than one place for its users and groups. For example, you may use the default Confluence internal directory and also connect to an LDAP directory server. In such cases, you can define the directory order to determine where Confluence looks first when processing users and groups.

    Here is a summary of how the directory order affects the processing:

    • The order of the directories is the order in which they will be searched for users and groups.
    • Changes to users and groups will be made only in the first directory where the application has permission to make changes.

    See Managing Multiple Directories.

  • Number of users and your license. The Confluence 'License Details' screen tells you how many users your Confluence instance is licensed to support, and how many are currently registered. See Viewing and Editing License Details. The number of registered users includes only users who have the 'Can Use' global permission. Deactivated users, as described above, are not included.
  • Deactivating users in Confluence 2.0.x and earlier. Earlier Confluence releases provided a 'Deactivate' link. If you click this link, the user will be prevented from logging in to the Confluence site. This function was removed from Confluence 2.1.x and later for performance reasons.
RELATED TOPICS
Page: Global Groups Overview
Page: Editing User Details
Page: Enabling or Disabling Public Signup
Page: Setting up Anonymous Access
Page: Disabling the Built-In User Management
Page: Adding or Removing Users in Groups
Page: Removing a Group
Page: Searching For and Managing Users
Page: Global Permissions Overview
Page: Adding a Group
Page: Viewing members of a group
Page: Adding a New User
Page: Permissions Overview
Page: Removing or Deactivating a User
Page: Changing Usernames

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