How to make Confluence Dashboard private?

[Michael Luthardt]

Since the dashboard is not a regular page or space, I can't find any option to hide it from "anonymous" users (users that are not logged in to confluence).

How can this be done ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You can't.  It's a system page that should be accessible to all. 

Restricting the main landing page for a Confluence is a really bad thing to do anyway.  Giving users a landing point that's just a permissions error page with no useful content is incredibly unfriendly and off-putting. 

You could change the "landing page" to be a page within a space though, then restrict that. But don't, because it will annoy your users.