Confluence Space ReadOnly permission

Question

How do we go about giving read only permission to spaces to confluence groups?

In the space permissions we enable only the View permission, but this means read and write permission to existing content, if there are no page restrictions.

To allow read only permission we need to go to the highest page level on the space and enable edit restricts, so that Everyone that has access to the space can view but only specific users/groups can edit. Pages lower in the page tree inherit this permission.

Is there no other way to do this?

Avinash Singh · Answer

Yes we understand that view and add/edit are separate now. The anonymous permissions created the confusion.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Right, so educate your users not to use anonymous permissions.  And then understand that view and create/edit are separate.

Avinash Singh · Answer

Thanks. The problem is that users can create their own spaces with their own permissions so they can easily give anonymous users greater privileges.

I have confirmed that User B that has no direct access to the space by group or user permission and is getting its edit permission from the Anonymous user permission.  Im using confluence version 6.0.2.