Unique Permissions Are Not Inherited from the Parent Web (216431)
The information in this article applies to:
- FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions from Microsoft
This article was previously published under Q216431 SYMPTOMS
When you use the FrontPage client to change a Web's permissions on the
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) from Use same
permissions as parent Web to Use unique permissions
for this Web, some users and groups are dropped.
CAUSE
Setting a Web to use unique permissions changes the permissions for the
Web so that its permissions can be managed separately from the root Web.
This allows you to have different content areas which are managed by
different accounts. You might assume that setting the Web to use unique
permissions would cause the Web to initially inherit the parent Web's
accounts, and that they could be modified after changing the setting to
unique. The actual behavior is that FrontPage will drop Administrator and
Author accounts that are not the person who is logged on making the change
to unique permissions. Any account with Browse access and the account that
is making the change to unique are kept. The Administrators group is also
kept if that is the group the person making the change belongs to.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, open the sub Web in FrontPage, and add back any
accounts that were dropped.
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 4/16/2002 |
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| Keywords: | kbbug KB216431 |
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