Setting Site Permission Inheritance


If a large number of sites in your SharePoint deployment have the same users, you may benefit from setting up site permission inheritance. This allows users from a site "above" the site in question to have access to the subsite. In essence, the permissions and site group memberships "flow down" to the subsites, when sites are configured this way. Site permission inheritance can be configured when a site is first created, or it can be modified at a later time. As a Site Administrator, you can use the following procedure to change permissions to flow down from an above site:

1.

From the site home page, click Site Settings.

2.

Under Administration, click Go to Site Administration.

3.

Click Manage Permission Inheritance. (If you do not see this link, your site is a top-level site, and the option is not valid. This procedure can only be performed on a subsite.)

4.

Select Use the same permissions as the parent site, as shown in Figure 16.3, and then click OK.

Figure 16.3. Changing site permission inheritance.


5.

Click OK at the warning notice to acknowledge that any customized users or site groups may be lost if you proceed.

Following this procedure and reversing the selection is how you can "detach" a site from a permissions inheritance tree that may be set up. This can be useful if a particular site needs to have a unique set of users.



    Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes
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