Group permission on folder

jmcdonald

I'm trying to get an understanding of Teamsite security on branches, workareas, and folders. Our site is running Teamsite 6.1.0 on Windows 2000. For the most part we use Content Center Professional.


Step 1:
We create a branch, and we have the option of setting a group - which I understand grants users in the group administrator access to the branch.

Step 2:
We create a workarea under the branch, and again we have the option of setting a group - which grants access to Teamsite users (let's say editors/authors)

Step 3:
This is where it unravels for me - creating a folder under the workarea. When you create a folder, it does not ask for a group, and inherits the permissions of the parent workarea. But when you examine the properties of the folder, you do have the option to input a group. What is this for and how does it differ from the group it inherited from the parent workarea?

Any direction would be appreciated.

Jim McDonald

nipper

One point you need to remember is that the submit.cfg file will also set the permissions on files
as they are submitted. So you can set for branch 1, owner me, group blah, and branch 2, owner you group foo.

There is still an issue as to what groups owns files that are newly created before submit. On Unix
those are set by te users primary group. On DOS I am not certain,

HTH

Andy