Check permissions for a person or site

You can find out quickly and easily who has access to what on your sites and content, and you can easily determine whether a site, list, or library contains content with unique permissions.

You can check the permissions settings for any of these:

• An individual (including yourself) or a security group
• A site or sub-site
• Site content, such as a list or library, or individual item within a list or library
• Whether a site, list, or library contains items with unique permissions, and if so, what they are.

TIP    If you have permission to add Web Parts to your site, you can add the Site Users Web Part to display all the people and groups who have access to the site.

 

 

Check the permissions for an individual or a security group

1. Click Site Actions, and then click Site Permissions.
2. On the Permission Tools tab, click Check Permissions.
3. Type the name of the person or group you want to check, and then click Check Now.

The Check Permissions dialog box displays name of the person or group you checked, along with the permission levels assigned to them and where the permission levels come from: That is, whether the person has permissions through membership in a group, or as an individual.

 

Check the permissions for a site

• Click Site Actions, and then click Site Permissions.

The permissions page displays all the users and security groups with access to the site, along with the permission levels assigned to them.

 

Check the permissions for a list

1. Open the list or library you want to check.
2. Under List Tools, click the List tab, and then click the List Permissions button, which is at the far right side of the menu, to go to the list permissions page.

The list permissions page displays all the users and security groups that have access to the list, along with the permission levels assigned to them.

This page also indicates whether the list or library inherits permissions or has unique permissions.

 

Check the permissions for a list item

1. Open the list item for which you want to view users and security groups.
2. Click the item with the permissions you want to check, and then click Manage Permissions.

The permissions page displays all the users and security groups (and their assigned permission levels) that have access to this piece of content.

This page also indicates whether the item inherits permissions or has unique permissions.

 

Check to see if a list or library contains items with unique permissions

1. Open the list or library you want to check. (Note: The rest of this procedure uses a library as an example, but you can follow the same steps for a list or an individual item).
2. On the Library Tools tab, click Library.
3. Click the Library Permissions button.

If the list or library contains items with unique permissions, the inheritance alert bar appears, highlighted in yellow.

4. Click the Show me uniquely secured items of this list link to see a list of items with unique permissions.

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