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author | dappelt <dappelt@gitlab.com> | 2018-09-17 13:10:46 +0200 |
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committer | dappelt <dappelt@gitlab.com> | 2018-09-18 11:20:52 +0200 |
commit | 37e16ccd1a9ce1a63759a916d75e441e95cb54f0 (patch) | |
tree | e171ab99b02bb477bb495e6c72a0d023e7fb3ad7 /doc | |
parent | 78b3eea7d248c6d3c48b615c9df24a95cb5fd1d8 (diff) | |
download | gitlab-ce-37e16ccd1a9ce1a63759a916d75e441e95cb54f0.tar.gz |
Clarify subgroup permissions
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md b/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md index b55946a788f..489094fadc4 100644 --- a/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md +++ b/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md @@ -140,8 +140,10 @@ From the image above, we can deduct the following things: You need to be an Owner of a group in order to be able to add members to it. 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 different -permissions. +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. 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 |