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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md | 6 |
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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 |