User Management - Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials - page 33

The invite URL has a security token as an argument. With this token, your users
will be able to sign up themselves if your Confluence instance is set to be accessible
privately. The security token can be reset on the Invite Users page; resetting it will
make all the previously sent invites invalid, and they will be obsolete.

Managing groups
Groups are collections of users. A group can be used to successfully manage a large
number of users. Administrators are allowed to create groups in Confluence and add
users to these groups. Permissions are then assigned to groups instead of users to
allow easier management.

There are two default groups already available in Confluence, and these are
special groups:

• confluence-administrators : This group represents the "super users". The
members of this group can access the Administration Console and perform
side-wide administrative actions, such as installing plugins or changing the
security of your site.
• confluence-users: : This is the default group for all new users. Users in this
group are allowed to log in to Confluence and add to your license user-limit.

The Confluence administrator permission and the confluence-
administrators group are not related
Although the name suggests they are related, they are not. Granting a
user or group the Confluence Administrator permission is not the same as
adding the user to the confluence-administrators group. The Confluence
Administrator permission gives the user access to only a subset of the
administrator functions and not complete access.
You can find more information on the differences between administrator
roles in the Global permissions section in Chapter 6 , Securing Your Content .

Creating groups
To add a group to Confluence, perform the following steps:

1. Browse to the Administration Console ( Administration | Confluence Admin ).

2. Choose Groups in the left-hand menu.

3. Select Add Group just below the table with the already existing groups.

4. Type the new group name.

5. Click on the Save button.