From 37e16ccd1a9ce1a63759a916d75e441e95cb54f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dappelt Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 13:10:46 +0200 Subject: Clarify subgroup permissions --- doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file 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 -- cgit v1.2.1