Issue Summary

The recovery admin account has limited access to administrative functions in Confluence v9.2.6. 

This is reproducible on Data Center: yes

Steps to Reproduce

1. Stop Confluence.
2. Add the following system property, replacing <your-password> with a unique, temporary password. 

   {{CATALINA_OPTS="-Datlassian.recovery.password=<your-password> ${CATALINA_OPTS}"}} 

3. Start Confluence
4. Check the atlassian-confluence-security.log file and find a newly generated recovery username:

    {{2025-10-14 12:48:42,757 INFO [perm-delta-cache-receiver] [crowd.manager.recovery.SystemPropertyRecoveryModeService] isRecoveryModeOn Recovery mode is ON. Recovery admin username: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'}} 

5. Log in with the recovery username from the log and the temporary password you specified in the system property.

Actual Results

• When navigated to the General Configuration administration page using the recovery admin credentials, all the administrative tasks such as 'User Directories', 'Cache Management' are visible.

Expected Results

• When navigated to the General Configuration administration page using the recovery admin credentials, administrative tasks such as 'User Directories', 'Cache Management' are not visible.

Workaround

• Currently there is no workaround for this issue.