How do you restrict access to external users

[Rodney Franklin]

This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Manage groups

How can you restrict access to confluence for external users

[Rob Woodgate]

Hi Rodney,

You have to have an account to use Confluence, unless you've enabled anonymous users.  By default, the anonymous users setting is switched off globally for Confluence, so you don't have to restrict access to anonymous users, you have to deliberately grant access.

See here for more information.