Can I hide a space/page from a Confluence admin?

[Aaron_Stanush]

My business partner and I have sensitive documents that only we should have access to in Confluence.

We have directors who need the ability to perform admin tasks in Confluence, like managing global templates.

As I understand it, only "Confluence Admins" can manage global templates -- but this would also allow them to see any page in any space.

Is there a workaround?

[Aaron_Stanush · Accepted solution]

Ok, great. I guess I wasn't clear about which default "admin" group I was talking about.

• administrators: Have basic access to administer Confluence settings
• confluence-administrators: Have full access to administer Confluence and see all content everywhere

I created a test user and assigned them to the "administrators" group and they seem to have basic admin access (editing global templates, etc.) and verified that they do not have access to a particular space which has been restricted to another custom group.

[Geoff Wilson]

Perhaps it has changed since this question was asked, but i'm on confluence 5.8.14 and I believe I have confirmed that personal spaces can in fact be hidden from everyone. 

1. I created my own personal space
2. I have only myself set in its Space Permissions
3. I created a page in that personal space
4. I didn't even bother setting restrictions on that page
5. When I go to the Space Directory > Personal Spaces, I can see my personal space listed
6. I logged in with my test account who has the Confluence Global Permissions as both a Confluence Administrator and a System Administrator
7. Using this account, when I go to the Space Directory > Personal Spaces, I cannot see my personal space listed
8. When i try to go to the URL of the space, it doesn't allow me to see it
9. When i try to go to the URL of the page in that personal space it doesn't allow me to see it. 

[Alexander Bondarev]

Hi, @Geoff Wilson !

I did as you described, but checking under the Administrator test account - I still see the space and its pages.

Magic?)

[Alexander Bondarev]

Confluence Server 6.10.0

[RianA]

Hi Aaron,

If you restrict some pages, by right normal Admin wouldn't be able to view the page that you restricted. Since the Admin in OnDemand version is not really a System Admin of the system, therefore I think this could be done. Please bear in mind that you can't hide any content from users that is inside 'confluence-administrators' group as per this documentation. However this group does not apply in OnDemand.

Hope it helps.

[Aaron_Stanush]

Ok, great. I guess I wasn't clear about which default "admin" group I was talking about.

• administrators: Have basic access to administer Confluence settings
• confluence-administrators: Have full access to administer Confluence and see all content everywhere

I created a test user and assigned them to the "administrators" group and they seem to have basic admin access (editing global templates, etc.) and verified that they do not have access to a particular space which has been restricted to another custom group.

[Dave]

If someone has Confluence-Admin permissions, they have full control of your site, so there is no way to hide something from them in a way that they could not circumvent if they wanted to.

Thanks,

-dave

[Aaron_Stanush]

Just to be clear, the only way to give someone the ability to manage global templates is to give them full control/access to the wiki?

[Kristin Lyons]

I know this question is very dated but is there a way to block spaces in Confluence Cloud from site admins without the site admin being able to add themselves to the space?