Permissons inheritance and SP Groups

Sorry in advance for the basic question but today I had a long conversation with a vendor that made me doubt what I know

Say you have a site collection, it has 5 subsites and all inherit from the parent.

They have the default permisson groups

Site1 Owners

Site1 Members

Approvers

Site1 Visitors

At some point you get asked to break inheritance and give all sites unique permissons.

From now on all the subsites no longer inherit from Site1, so if I add a user or change anything on that site it wont push down to Subsite1

Now here the part where the confusion came in, if the Appovers group or any exisitng group that is on Subsite1 gets modified will the sites below it see a difference in the Aprrovers group, mythoughts are they will because the group is already there and breaking inheritance doesnt make the assigned groups unique, they are still the same SP group.

thanks

themush

March 24th, 2015 7:07pm

So one thing to keep in mind is that all SPGroups and Users are stored at the RootWeb level. Subwebs may or may not use those groups or contain those users.

That said, in your scenario, the subweb(s) would still be leveraging the RootWeb's groups (Site1 Owners, Site1 Members, Approvers...) until you manually removed them. If you created an alternate Approvers group and assigned it to the subweb, then yes you would have to manage both Approvers groups by hand.

So yes, you're absolutely correct -- it is the same Approvers group when you break subweb inheritance.

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March 24th, 2015 9:32pm

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