Can I hide a space/page from a Confluence admin?
Asked by Aaron_Stanush:

My business partner and I have sensitive documents that only *we* should have access to in Confluence.

We have directors who need the ability to perform admin tasks in Confluence, like managing global templates.

As I understand it, only "Confluence Admins" can manage global templates -- but this would also allow them to see any page in any space.

Is there a workaround?


Answers:
author: Aaron_Stanush
body: Ok, great. I guess I wasn't clear about which default "admin" group I was talking about.

* **administrators** : Have *basic* access to administer Confluence settings
* **confluence-administrators** : Have *full* access to administer Confluence and see *all* content everywhere

I created a test user and assigned them to the "administrators" group and they seem to have basic admin access (editing global templates, etc.) and verified that they do not have access to a particular space which has been restricted to another custom group.


author: Geoff Wilson
body: Perhaps it has changed since this question was asked, but i'm on confluence 5.8.14 and I believe I have confirmed that personal spaces ++can++ in fact be hidden from everyone.

1. I created my own personal space
2. I have only myself set in its Space Permissions
3. I created a page in that personal space
4. I didn't even bother setting restrictions on that page
5. When I go to the Space Directory \> Personal Spaces, I can see my personal space listed
6. I logged in with my test account who has the Confluence Global Permissions as both a Confluence Administrator and a System Administrator
7. Using this account, when I go to the Space Directory \> Personal Spaces, I ++cannot++ see my personal space listed
8. When i try to go to the URL of the space, it doesn't allow me to see it
9. When i try to go to the URL of the page in that personal space it doesn't allow me to see it.

comments: author: Alexander Bondarev
body: Hi, [@Geoff Wilson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853510) !

I did as you described, but checking under the Administrator test account - I still see the space and its pages.

Magic?)


author: Alexander Bondarev
body: Confluence Server 6.10.0


author: RianA
body: Hi Aaron,

If you restrict some pages, by right normal Admin wouldn't be able to view the page that you restricted. Since the Admin in OnDemand version is not really a System Admin of the system, therefore I think this could be done. Please bear in mind that you can't hide any content from users that is inside 'confluence-administrators' group as per this [documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview#GlobalPermissionsOverview-Comparingtheconfluence-administratorsgroupwiththeadministratorpermissions). However this group does not apply in OnDemand.

Hope it helps.

comments: author: Aaron_Stanush
body: Ok, great. I guess I wasn't clear about which default "admin" group I was talking about.

* **administrators** : Have *basic* access to administer Confluence settings
* **confluence-administrators** : Have *full* access to administer Confluence and see *all* content everywhere

I created a test user and assigned them to the "administrators" group and they seem to have basic admin access (editing global templates, etc.) and verified that they do not have access to a particular space which has been restricted to another custom group.


author: Dave
body: If someone has Confluence-Admin permissions, they have full control of your site, so there is no way to hide something from them in a way that they could not circumvent if they wanted to.

Thanks,

-dave

comments: author: Aaron_Stanush
body: Just to be clear, the only way to give someone the ability to manage global templates is to give them full control/access to the wiki?


author: Kristin Lyons
body: I know this question is very dated but is there a way to block spaces in Confluence Cloud from site admins without the site admin being able to add themselves to the space?


Tags: cloud

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