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Limit access to library using permissions
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to set document library permissions so that only limited group of users can see and access it.
I broke the permissions inheritance on library and set my limited group only to have access to this library.
Nevertheless, when testing out permissions with my test-account "testkasutaja mg", the library is still visible under Site Content and in quick launch treeview. How can this be?
I also checked permissions for that user account on that specific library:
There is this strange "Limited Access" with no hint, from what group is is being inherited.
I have never seen this kind of situation before. Usually there is also a description that says "Given through the **** group".
When I checked user account, that has permissions for this library, the following appears:
Everything else seems normal, except the empty "Limited Access" again.
When trying to accomplish same setup on a different site collection, everything works as expected.
Have anyone had such issue? Or do anyone have suggestions what might be the cause of such issue here?
Any help appreciated! :)
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some time back but if I remember rightly 'limited' is often used in sharepoint to indicate when it has had to set pass thru permission in order to grant a descendant a specific permission. this can occur when someone has used the 'Share' on-prem for a single document and sharepoint has tried to set access permission changes accordingly. usually the result is a mess of limited access grants.
is there any docs or data in the library or is it a clean new-born?
kath patterson is right in assuming this. There is strong likelihood that there is(are) permission exception(s) from within the library i.e. some document(s) has(have) broken inheritance.
Hi kath patterson and Mohammed Rehmatullah ,
The library I descibed above has no items in it. That's why I found this extremely strange...
I understand, that when library persmissions are limited but for a file inside the library has given permissions explicitly (via Share button) then "Limited access" is granted to library and folders where the files is located.
But in my case it seems like "Limited access" is somehow given to "Everyone" default group and every user can see libraries and folders even if they do not have permissions for it.
