🛡️ Security

Visibility Level

A per-project or per-group setting on platforms like GitLab that controls who can see it: public (anyone, including anonymous users), internal (any signed-in user), or private (explicit members only). Public projects expose API endpoints to unauthenticated callers.

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How to Lock Down Public Projects on Self-Managed GitLab

Public projects give anonymous users an API surface on your GitLab server. Here is how to inventory them, reduce the set, and stop new ones from appearing without an admin.

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