I would like to remove anonymous access as a choice for Space admins

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I would like to remove anonymous access as a choice for Space admins.Since if a client space admin accidentally selects anonymous user permission, the space is visible to all users who are logged in which is a security breach in our company.

In the global permissions section for anonymous user we have selected as anonymous users can't use confluence, because of which if a page is set as anonymous a non-logged in user is not able to view that page , but a logged in user can access that page

since we have set in the global permissions that an anonymous user can't view confluence then if a space is set as anonymous (non-login user) then that is working fine for anonymous user i.e. an anonymous user is unable to view that page because of global settings.
But the problem is that if a space is set as anonymous accidentally by a client then that space is visible to all other clients(logged in user) which is a security breach for clients.So if this can be prevented then please let us know or if the anonymous option can be removed from the space permissions then please let us know.

If any body can let us know the UI component in which the space permissions section is visible so that from there we can remove the anonymous section

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unknown · Answer

Hi Ankur,

Is there an update on this request? Can you point me to feature request (if there is one yet) for global admins to be able to remove the anonymous permission option in spaces from the Atlassian as a built in solution and not as a "hack"?  We need to be able to remove several permission options from the space permission scheme so that our space admins don't accidentally grant other permissions such as making permission changes they don't understand or accidentally granting anonymous access.  It would be nice if global admins had more control over which permissions they want spaces and space admins to be able to control.  The check mark options just aren't enough.  We need to be able to disable, lock or completely remove from the space permission options. Thanks.

Also with the hard code solution you propose above, would we have to repeat this hack every time we upgraded on server instance? We host on prem. That option would be resource intensive.

DerivcoITServer · Answer

I would like a better more native solution from Atlassian as well, possibly an additional option in their global permissions.

Ankur Mehrotra · Answer

This is a solution provided by atlassian , no other way we have currently