Hi,I’ve 4 groups viz.,
Group Name Access
group A Reader access in the database, it is a multi- purpose group
group B Not Known, defined as a Multipurpose group.
group C Not known, defined as a Multipurpose group.
group D Not known, defined as a Multipurpose group.
The members of Group A are
group B,
group C,
group D.
The members of Group B, C, D are:
group B 1, 2, 3
group C 4, 5, 6
group D 7, 8, 9
Now, these group are placed in the Public addressbook. I’ve a database, where in I just include, Group A in the ACL and give them Reader access.
Now what will be the effective access of the following people, when they try to access the database.
group B members,
group C members,
group D members.
Plz, help.
Regards,
Brian.
Subject: Effective Access
All the people in the groups will have read access.
cheers,
Tom
Subject: Tom is correct - Nested groups
Group A is in the ACL with reader rights. These rights are inherited by the member groups B, C and D, and subsequently by the people in the groups. Therefore everyone in B, C and D will have reader rights. It’s called ‘nested groups’.
Unless, of course, one of the people in B, C or D is also in another group with different rights, or is present in the ACL as a person. Remember:
-Person rights always overrule group rights - so if a person is editor in the ACL, but he is also member of a group that has reader access in the ACL, he will have editor access.
-If a person is in two groups with different rights in the same ACL (say editor and reader), the person will the highest rights (editor in this case)
See the Admin help for more info, this document for example
Subject: RE: Tom is correct - Nested groups
Thank you Gerco. Thank you.