The invention discloses a user access area method and device. An area comprises a first data area and a second data area which are separated from each other and can access to each other. The first data area comprises first privilege configuration, and the second data area comprises second privilege configuration. The method comprises the steps that when current equipment displays the fact that the second data area receives an encryption instruction, preset decryption configuration information is extracted; and when the decryption configuration information is information of first data area displaying after decryption, the first privilege configuration is used for encrypting the current equipment. When the second data area is displayed, the first privilege configuration of the first data area can be used for encrypting the equipment through the decryption configuration information, the safety of the second data area is kept, meanwhile, the operation that the second privilege configuration of the second data area is used for encryption is lowered, system resource occupancy is lowered, the flexibility of the encryption mode is improved, and practicability is high.