Confluence restrict user to a specific space
Asked by Anthony Sapountzis:

We are currently have one lcient with access to our confluence on demand, they are in the confluence-users group with changes made to confluence recently they can now see all spaces.   
How can we restrict them to their own space.

They are also added to their own group.


Answers:
author: Anthony Sapountzis
body: I had to go through each space and remove the confluence-users from the allowed groups. THe confluence-users are also not the within teh default group that gets assigned to any space so it has worked out ok. I had to follow

### [**Nic Brough**](../../users/117/nic-brough/) suggestion {#toc-hId-1480607295}


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Anthony,

You'll have to change the permission schema of all spaces and remove the confluence-users group from the ones you don't wish them to have access. You may want also to create a new group for these users and allow this group to access only the spaces they have to by changing the space permissions. I know this might take some time but it's necessary to change the permissions again.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Daniel Borcherding
body: I don't think the solution is to take confluence-users off all spaces. Where are you setting this users groups? What happens if you remove just him from the confluence-users group?


author: Anthony Sapountzis
body: If i remove from confluence-users they do not have access to confluence at all.

When we had it set it up there was no confluence-users group. Atlassian added that and know you must be part of that group to access confluence.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Apologies,

If you give this customer group you have created for this user the same global permissions as the confluence-users group he should be able to log in.


author: Anthony Sapountzis
body: Yes he will be able to login but then he has permissions to all spaces. Hwo do i restrict the access to once space only?


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Apologies,

Let me organize my thoughts a bit better.

1) permit the custom group he is in on the global permissions. This will allow a login.

2) remove him from confluence-users group to remove permissions on most of your site content.

3) add space permission for his group on the space you want him to be able to access

4) Access should be restricted to that single space and nothing else without having to juggle the confluence-user permissions on all spaces


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm afraid Anthony is essentially correct here. Confluence-users is a group that says "can log in". If it's used in permissions to allow any more access, then all users in the group will get it. So you \*must\* unpick that if you want to restrict someone's access.

Daniel's solution is one approach, but has a significant problem - every new user you add from then on will be added to both confluence-users and the new group. So you may need to remove them from groups after creating them. The best solution is to slog through the hard work of separating "can log in" from all other permissions.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: I do also agree with Nic, my idea was to separate the can use permission from other permissions. That may cause some hard work but it will work. :)

Let us know your thoughts Anthony


author: Michael Harrod
body: In case anyone else has a similar issue (like me) and the other answers don't solve it.

In my case, I don't know why, but Anonymous had been granted a number of permissions in Space Permissions. When I removed them (no current need for anonymous access) then the client's user group became restricted to the client space, as I hoped.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Apologies,

Let me organize my thoughts a bit better.

1) permit the custom group he is in on the global permissions. This will allow a login.

2) remove him from confluence-users group to remove permissions on most of your site content.

3) add space permission for his group on the space you want him to be able to access

4) Access should be restricted to that single space and nothing else without having to juggle the confluence-user permissions on all spaces


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Apologies,

Let me organize my thoughts a bit better.

1) permit the custom group he is in on the global permissions. This will allow a login.

2) remove him from confluence-users group to remove permissions on most of your site content.

3) add space permission for his group on the space you want him to be able to access

4) Access should be restricted to that single space and nothing else without having to juggle the confluence-user permissions on all spaces


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