Using company's confluence as wiki for company's partners

Kirill Golovkin

We have company's confluence with information which we plan to share with two groups of people: 

1. All internet users which passed authorization.

2. Users from our company partners.

Access to information depends on user's group. 

Questions: 

1. How can we make this without create new users in our Confluence? For instance, we are going to create our authorization service which connected with confluence. New users will get some tokens from our service and will get access to Confluence.

2. Are there possibilities to use confluence like forum without registration loads of users?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

There are three ways people can use Confluence:

• Be a Confluence user
• Be a Service Desk customer (customers get read-only access to help articles though, not full access)
• Be working on a Confluence with "anonymous access" enabled.  But I cannot recommend doing this beyond letting them have read-only access.  You will have no way to know who is active or editing, and if you exposed your Confluence to the internet, I can guarantee spam and malicious activity.   Some Confluences firewalled off from the internet let people have "comment" rights, as you might not care who adds those, but I wouldn't go further and let anonymous users edit, attach, delete, email and so-on.

So, the short answer is "no".  If you want to limit access by group, you need to know who people are, which means they have to log in and be a user.