How do I give remove page permissions to all users from a group for all spaces?

[Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)]

I have 40-50 Spaces and for historical reasons, people do not have remove page rights on them.

How can I fix this, without doing too much manual work?

And, how can I change the permissions so the users will have the desired rights by deault?

[Azwandi Mohd Aris]

You can make use of the Confluence Command Line interface: https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli. It is a remote API client - use it in a loop to apply the permission for your groups/users.

The method you will need to use is addPermissions, with permission removepage. See this for the doc:

https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-addPermissions

I'm afraid there is no way to change the default space permission settings for new spaces.

[Bob Swift]

Adding to Azwandi's answer, if you have CLI 2.6.0, it is easy to do for all spaces using something like:

confluence --action runFromSpaceList --common "--action addPermissions --space @space@ --permissions REMOVEPAGE --userId xxxxx"

or for groups, use --group instead of --userid

You can also look at your permissions via getSpacePermissionList - the documentation will be available when 2.6.0 is released (snapshot only right now).

[Amber Batson]

When doing runFromSpaceList, is there a way to loop through the groups & users for each space? I'm trying to make our old wiki read-only for content reference for an upgrade but have 2000+ spaces with all different users..

[Amber Batson]

I think I can do getSpacePermissionList to text file, then use a script to loop through that and remove the permissions.. sorry - long day and I'm a little new to this :-) I'm going to try it.