I recently became an administrator for a Confluence server site. I've logged in repeatedly, but my username does not appear in the local user directory.
I regret to say that the documentation contains no useful hints for this case, and I have users who want to add me to spaces.
Verify your a licensed user by default this is normally "confluence-user" group.
https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/global-permissions-overview-138709.html
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