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author | dappelt <dappelt@gitlab.com> | 2018-09-19 13:22:33 +0200 |
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committer | dappelt <dappelt@gitlab.com> | 2018-09-19 13:22:33 +0200 |
commit | e2df834afe965bc1091b48f0b34f119fa7ede53e (patch) | |
tree | 111f3bfadd6f2c262aa76243284c7ede4d8ee31e /doc | |
parent | 37e16ccd1a9ce1a63759a916d75e441e95cb54f0 (diff) | |
download | gitlab-ce-e2df834afe965bc1091b48f0b34f119fa7ede53e.tar.gz |
Address Evan's comments
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diff --git a/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md b/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md index 489094fadc4..70555a893bb 100644 --- a/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md +++ b/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md @@ -139,11 +139,12 @@ From the image above, we can deduct the following things: >**Note:** You need to be an Owner of a group in order to be able to add members to it. +>**Note:** +A user's permissions in a subgroup cannot be lower than in any of its ancestor groups. +Therefore, you cannot reduce a user's permissions in a subgroup with respect to its ancestor groups. + To override a user's membership of an ancestor group (the first group they were -added to), simply add the user in the new subgroup again, but with a higher set of -permissions. Note that a user's permissions in a subgroup cannot be lower -than in any of its ancestor groups and, hence, you cannot reduce a user's permissions -in a subgroup with respect to its ancestor groups. +added to), add the user to the new subgroup again with a higher set of permissions. For example, if User0 was first added to group `group-1/group-1-1` with Developer permissions, then they will inherit those permissions in every other subgroup |