Prevent a space administrator from editing user permissions

[Pierre-Henri Legourd]

Hello, for safety reasons, I need to prevent space administrators from editing user permissions within their space. Only Confluence administrators should retain that right. Is there any way to achieve that (hiding the Permission menu in the Space tools sidebar, disabling the "Edit permission" button... unless one is part of the confluence-administrators group) ?

I haven't found anything in the Global permissions menu.

Within each space, removing the "space admin" permission from everyone but Confluence administrators is too restrictive : space administrators should keep the ability to edit templates, the look and feel... I'd like to avoid that option if possible.

[Tom Whittle · Accepted solution]

Hi Pierre-Henri,

Unfortunately as you mentioned the closest possible option to achieve the desired result would be to remove the space admin permission, however, as you said the permissions are not that granular and that would limit the access to edit templates, look and feel, etc.

Provided that the aforementioned features like editing templates, etc are not critical the closest you would be able to get to the desired state would be to remove the space admin permission.

Hope this helps,

Tom

[Pierre-Henri Legourd]

Thanks Tom for this confirmation!

[Pierre-Henri Legourd · Accepted solution]

Hello, I found a way around this issue through a javascript snippet in the Custom HTML menu. It's not the cleanest solution but it works. The snippet is very simple, checking whether the user has access to a menu which only appears for administrators. If they don't, depending on the page they're viewing, some content will be hidden and impossible to click.