How to check for users who never logged into Confluence

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Purpose

There are times when the Confluence administration would like to see the users that never logged to the application for administrative purposes.

Solution

In order to see the users who never logged into Confluence, run the following query:

This was tested with MySQL and Confluence 5.8.x. Other databases may slightly differ the syntax.

1 2 3 4 5 select user_name from cwd_user where user_name not in (SELECT cwd_user.user_name FROM cwd_user, cwd_user_attribute WHERE cwd_user_attribute.user_id = cwd_user.id AND cwd_user_attribute.attribute_name = 'lastAuthenticated');

Note

It will display all synchronised users.

Updated on April 8, 2025

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