| Group Inheritance and User Permissions [message #21987] |
Thu, 06 January 2005 21:55  |
mikelcu
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Location: Portland, OR
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I am a bit confused by one way inheritance works in regard to user permissions.
I have a setup with a main group A, and subgroup B.
Group B inherits from Group A
all forums under Group B inherit from Group B
If (for example) I change 'Read' to 'NO' in Group A, 'Read' turns to 'NO' all the way down to individual forums via the inheritance, as I would expect.
Next I log in as group leader for Group B. The option to change "Read" for any forums inheriting from Group B is gone, as it should be.
But here is the part I don't quite understand. Although I changed 'Read' to 'NO' as admin, the user permissions for the group leader show that 'Read' permission is still set to 'Yes' inside all the subgroups.
I expected that if I changed permissions in a parent group, that the changes would not only affect subgoups/forums, but it would also affect the current permissions of group members, even the leaders.
What this would mean is if I wanted to turn off 'Read' for all groups and members under Group A, I would have to change the setting in the groups manager for Group A (this covers groups), but then I would have to go (as admin, since leaders can no longer change 'Read') to each existing member of all groups under Group A and manually change the individual user permissions for each group.
I guess the base question is this:
Is there a way to affect group member permissions based on a change made to permissions of a parent group?
If not, is the normal way to change permissions for group members to change them each individually or am I missing something?
Hopefully this makes some kind of sense 
TIA
-mike
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