This page last changed on Oct 05, 2006 by nicholas@atlassian.com.

Permissions determine what actions a user is allowed to perform within Confluence.

Global permissions control which users can :

  • Can Use: This is the most basic permission that allows users to access the site.

  • Attach Files to User Profile This allows the user to upload files to be stored in their user profile.

  • Personal Space This permission alows the user to create a personal space.

  • Create Space: This permission allows users to create new spaces within a Confluence site. When a space is created, the creator automatically has the 'Administrate Space' permission for that space and can perform space-wide administrative functions.

  • Administrate Confluence: This permission allows users to access the Administration Console that controls site-wide administrative functions.

Global Permissions are granted in the Global Permissions section of the Administration Console. In order to assign these permissions, a user must already have the global 'Administrate Confluence' permission.

Site administrators can assign global permissions to user-groups, individual users, and to anonymous users. Further permissioning is granted from the space administration Screens.

Note about 'Administrate Confluence' permission

Granting a user 'Administrate Confluence' permission will not automatically grant her access to all spaces in the site. It will only grant the user access to the Administration menu.

Automatically being an administrator of all spaces is only available to the special "confluence-administrators" group (internally called the superuser group). There is an outstanding enhancement request to replace the superuser group with something better.

Be aware, however, that users will 'administrate' permission must still be trusted. They have access to modify users and groups in Confluence, so can always add themselves to the 'confluence-administrators' group and become a superuser.

RELATED TOPICS
Adding a Group
Adding a New User
Adding or Removing a User from a Group
Changing Usernames
Editing User Details

I miss the documentation for the 2 new plobal permissions (personal space, attach files to personal space)

Posted by seyfert@gdsys.de at Jun 20, 2006 06:56

Yeah, I can't figure out what "attach files to user profile' does. It certainly doesn't stop users from attaching files to their personal space if that option is enabled, and I can't find any 'attach' option in the profile (other than the profile picture which is always available)

Posted by aholtz at Sep 26, 2006 20:55

 SPELLING? Under the above:

Note about 'Administrate Confluence' permission

I think the sentence should read:

"Be aware, however, that users WITH 'administrate' permission must still be trusted..."

Posted by confluence@earthvigil.org at Nov 07, 2006 06:55

An update on how this works when you're using group integration with LDAP would be useful. I have a slightly broken Confluence upgrade because there's no-one in confluence-administrators and no way to add someone to this group.

Posted by alister at Jan 21, 2007 19:58

If your groups are in LDAP, it should be as simple as creating a group in LDAP called "confluence-administrators" and adding your superusers to that.

If you're having specific problems, you're probably best off filing a support case on http://support.atlassian.com

Posted by cmiller at Jan 23, 2007 22:35

Attaching files to a user profile was a feature made obselete by personal spaces. The permission was supposed to be removed in Confluence 2.2, but for some reason it hung around.

Posted by cmiller at Jan 23, 2007 22:36
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