This page last changed on Jun 30, 2010 by pkamal.

The People Directory provides a list of all users in your Confluence system.

If you need to disable the People Directory set the following system properties on your application server command line:

 -Dconfluence.disable.peopledirectory.anonymous=true
  • To disable the People Directory entirely,
-Dconfluence.disable.peopledirectory.all=true

This workaround will prevent the People directory from appearing on the dashboard, but if you navigate to the profile of a user, and then click on the "People" in the breadcrumb link (Dashboard >> People >> FullName >> Profile) or you go to the URL directly <CONFLUENCE_INSTALL>/browsepeople.action, you will be able to access the people directory.

To workaround this, set up Apache webserver in front of confluence and redirect requests to this URL.

To remove the link on the dashboard:

This only applies to Confluence 2.5.2 to 2.9.x. Confluence 2.10.x or later only needs to configure system properties using the above.
Edit the <confluence-install>/confluence/decorators/global.vmd:
Comment out line 37:

<!--                    <img src="$req.contextPath/images/icons/people_directory_32.gif" align='absmiddle' height="32" width="32"> <b><a class="fontSizeDefault" href="$req.contextPath/peopledirectory.action"> $action.getText("people.directory.title")</a></b><span class="smalltext"> -    $action.getText("people.directory.description")</span><br> --> 

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Document generated by Confluence on Jul 09, 2010 01:08