Configuring List and Library Level Security


After you have added users into the specific site group they need access to, such as Reader or Contributor, those users then inherit those rights across the entire site. If, however, you need to change the ability of certain site groups to access a particular portion of the site, you can modify the security of a particular list or library within your site. This can be useful if you need to give a large group of people Read access to a site, but you also want to restrict them from being able to see information in a specific document library.

To configure specific list or document library security, perform the following steps:

1.

Select the particular list or document library by clicking it from the home page of the site or from the Documents and Lists link on the navigation bar.

2.

On the left side of the page, click Modify settings and columns.

3.

Click Change permissions for this document library (or list).

4.

From the next screen, shown in Figure 16.4, you can select to add new users, groups, cross-site groups, or domain groups, or modify existing groups. In this example, we are removing the Reader Site group from having access to the document library, so we check it and click the Remove Selected Users link.

Figure 16.4. Modifying document library or list level security.


5.

Click OK to verify these changes.

Using this procedure, you can get even more granular control over the types of permissions your users require in a site.

NOTE

One of the questions often asked at this point is whether SharePoint can get even more granular than this with permissions. For example, many Administrators want to be able to delegate permissions at the folder or document level. Unfortunately, this type of functionality is not currently supported in SharePoint, and the only effective way of accomplishing this type of security granularity is to create multiple document libraries or lists and apply security in the manner just discussed.




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