Ban users to change profile picture
Asked by MM.CZ:

I have been wondering if there is a functional workaround to disable possibity of changing profile pictures in confluence version 6+.

I have tried this (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-prevent-users-from-changing-profile-pictures-in-confluence-5-5-x-versions-604537165.html>) without success.

Happy to hear any suggestion.

Marek


Answers:
author: Brandon_Patton
body: The style changed - you need to change the entry you have in the Global Stylesheet to:

```
.avatar-picker-trigger?{?display:?none;?}??
```

comments: author: Lucinda Stroud
body: Just a note - this approach does not work for sites using the Refined theme and adding this entry to the custom CSS section that they provide.


author: Brandon_Patton
body: Hi [@Lucinda Stroud](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/395034) ,

What version of RefinedTheme are you using? I can confirm that for our installation (Confluence 6.15.9 and RefinedTheme 6.1.10) this stylesheet line still does the trick for us.

Just to verify, the line has to be added to the Confluence Global Stylesheet, and not the RefinedTheme configuration stylesheets.

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author: Shannon S
body: Hi Marek,

I would recommend using an add-on to force the photos for users, such as this one:

* [Confluence Profile Pictures](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.equionconsulting.confluence.epp/server/overview)

There's a background job on that which sets them automatically from a location of your choosing. I am not very familiar with that add-on but I would expect that it should overwrite any photos that someone has uploaded themselves.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: MM.CZ
body: Dear Shannon,  
I am very grateful for your reply, but I do not seek a paid solution.   

To introduce you to the the problem. I have created a solution, powershell script, to import profile pictures of all users from AD server to confluence via XML-RPC method. And I am able to run this script periodically to work around the problem of users changing pictures. But in that case I am not aware of the confluence behaviour in handling the files. If the method addProfilePicture replaces the previous file with the new one (filename is the same) or create a new version?

I'm quite convinced confluence handles it by stacking a new version of the file, similar to handling new page, attachment. Thus I would run out of disk space very soon. Therefore my question is if there exists a solution to easily remove picture (attachment) just by knowing the filename?

Best wishes,

Marek


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Marek,

That original knowledgebase article was an unofficial workaround and there doesn't seem to be a replacement for it.

It has been requested in the past to prevent users from changing their own avatar, but it has been rejected as we do not intend to pursue this in the future:

* [CONFSERVER-26043](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-26043)

There is, however, an open request to allow admins to change user profile pictures:

* [CONFSERVER-14368](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-14368)

My recommendation is to vote on that if it would help you accomplish what you need without the use of a paid add-on, and comment there with your use case.

Thank you for your understanding!

Regards,

Shannon


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