Restricting access to user names in URLs

[Damien Desrousseaux]

Hello,

We use email addresses as usernames in our Confluence instance and such we would like to hide the usernames in user profiles URLs like /display/~damien@example.com

Currently every user can view these URLs by entering a username into the search box, or with the mouse hover a user in the forum plugin that we use.

I found a similar topic here : https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1882 with a workaround to prevent access to user profiles URLs when you try to open it, but it doesn't prevent the users to view the URL on the link.

Is there a way to hide the usernames in URLs or to completely disable the links to user profiles maybe?

Thank you.

[Rodrigo Adami]

Hi Damien,

It seems that you were in the right track. :)

I couldn't find a option to hide the usernames in the URL, so I believe this would fall in the open improvements like this.

I suggest to vote in those features to rise their chances to be implemented.

Regards,

Rodrigo

[Damien Desrousseaux]

Thank you Rodriguo.

I have voted for it but as i understand it is quite hopeless (53 votes :( ).

Maybe I should consider writing a confluence plugin myself if it is not too hard for a beginner like me.

Regards,

Damien