What permission is required for a user to associate a modern site to a hub site?

[Donia Strand]

Hi,

We've put our first hub site into production, and we are wondering what permission is required to associate a site with a hub site? The user in question is the owner of the site they want to associate and the hub site and has read to the root collection in SharePoint. However, they do not see the "hub site association" section on the site they want to associate to the hub at all. What is required to have this permission? Thanks!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

You either have to be site collection admin of the hub site, or you can grant permissions of who can join via mail enabled security group via powershell to allow users the ability to join the hub.

To restrict permission to associate sites to the hub after creation, run the following command: > Grant-SPOHubSiteRights -Identity URL -Principals GroupEmail -Rights Join> (Where Identity is the URL of the site and GroupEmail is the email address of the mail-enabled security group.)

[#3]

Perfect, thank you. Site collection admin had no effect, but the script did. Appreciate it!