This page last changed on Aug 14, 2005 by jnolen.
Granting of permissions to use Confluence can be done on the basis of membership of a group, to a particular user, or to the "Anonymous" user. There is not an actual user named "Anonymous", it is just a name for a category of granted permissions.
In the security administration of Confluence, the "Anonymous" user includes all logged-in users, and anonymous users who have not logged in. That is, if you allow the "Anonymous" user to do something, you are allowing all users to do it.
To enable public access to a confluence space, you must give Anonymous the following permissions:
- The global "Use Confluence" permission. This permission determines if a user can access the Confluence installation at all, and is set by the site administrator in Administration->Global Permissions
- The relevant permissions in any space that is to be made public. The "Anonymous" user must have at least the "View Space" permission for a space to be publicly accessible. You set these permissions in the Space Summary Cannot resolve external resource into attachment. -> Permissions Cannot resolve external resource into attachment.
While these two permissions are the bare minimum necessary for public access to a space, you may wish to give "Anonymous" additional permissions if you want a space to allow anonymous comments, or anonymous editing.
We severely warn against giving the "Anonymous" user any administrative privileges, either within a space, or especially globally over the Confluence instance. Giving administrative privileges to untrusted users may lead to a serious security compromise of your site.
Request for clarification:
There is to be a regular user created with a username of 'Anyone' and by its username alone confluence will determine this is the user meant to convey any user, known or unknown?
Thks.

Posted by at Nov 13, 2004 15:53
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The text is referring to the "Anonymous Access" panel. The "can't use" | "can use" switch is the "Use Confluence" permission.

Posted by at Dec 22, 2004 10:04
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I have given "can use" to Anonymous users, but they see no Spaces.
How do you give Anonymous read-only access to Spaces?

Posted by at Mar 31, 2005 18:56
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You have to configure anonymous access in the space-level permissions as well.

Posted by cmiller at Mar 31, 2005 19:32
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For others, you do this by going to the "Space Homepage", then from the Page Operations on the right, "Space Summary", and then "Space Administration".

Posted by at Mar 31, 2005 19:49
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no, don't add the user named "Anyone".

Posted by at Aug 12, 2005 07:35
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As of "Version: 1.4.4", the path is "Browse Space" at the top right when navigating one space, then hit the last tab "Space Admin", and there on the left, first link of the "Security" group of links -> "Permissions".
Cheers

Posted by at Oct 03, 2005 03:09
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