This page last changed on May 02, 2011 by pwatson.

If you are a Confluence Administrator, you can remove and deactivate users.

You can remove a user from Confluence if they have not yet added or edited any content on the site. Such content includes pages and blog posts, and edits and comments on existing pages.

You can deactivate, or disable, a user, including one who has contributed content.

  • Deactivated users can no longer log in to Confluence.
  • Deactivating a user will not remove the content created by them from the site.
  • Deactivated users do not count towards your license count. (See the notes below.)

To remove a user:

  1. Go to the user's Profile and click the 'Administer User' link.
  2. Click 'Remove'.


To deactivate a user:

  1. Go to the user's Profile and click the 'Administer User' link.
  2. Click 'Disable'.

Screenshot above: Viewing user details

Notes

  • The 'Administer User' link is only visible if you are logged in as an administrator.
  • You can also remove or disable users using the Administration Console.
  • You can edit the groups that a user belongs to if you don't wish to prevent their access to Confluence completely.
  • Multiple user directories: You may define multiple user directories in Confluence, so that Confluence looks in more than one place for its users and groups. For example, you may use the default Confluence internal directory and also connect to an LDAP directory server. In such cases, you can define the directory order to determine where Confluence looks first when processing users and groups. Here is a summary of how the directory order affects the processing:
    • The order of the directories is the order in which they will be searched for users and groups.
    • Changes to users and groups will be made only in the first directory where the application has permission to make changes.

    See Managing Multiple Directories.

  • Number of users and your license. The Confluence 'License Details' screen tells you how many users your Confluence instance is licensed to support, and how many are currently registered. See Viewing and Editing License Details. The number of registered users includes only users who have the 'Can Use' global permission. Deactivated users, as described above, are not included.
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