can we restrict a confluence-administrator from accessing a Space without adding him explicitly

[rajesh uyyala]

Hi,

We have a situation here, we have some secured document client spaces for which, we dont want confluence administrators even though they have admin access defined in Global permissions.

I added page restrictions to the those admins but they still can see those spaces, is there way to restrict? please help.

Thanks

[Thomas Schlegel · Accepted solution]

Hi Rajesh,

you can't hide anything from a Confluence administrator. Even if you restrict the pages, your admin will be able to break any lock if he wants to.

You have to trust your admins.

[rajesh uyyala]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the reply!

Do the admins require to do something for accessing the restricted pages or they have access to the restricted pages by default?

At least, we need to find a way to audit.

thanks.

[Thomas Schlegel]

They have access to the pages. If you create a space and a page like this:

• the admin has no permission for the space
• the page is restricted to anyone else but not the admin

then:

• the admin can watch the page if he knows the exact url
• the admin can see the space and therefore see the page names
• he can't find the page with a regular search

There's an audit log, but it doesn't record information related to pages (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/audit-log-829076528.html)

[rajesh uyyala]

Thanks for the information!