Re: Access Rights Confusion

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From: Thom (noSpam)
Date: 08/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:15:56 +0100

This MSDN blog posting from Daniel McPherson might be of interest?

He deals with this question:
"As a consultant, what do you tell clients looking for a collabration
solution about the way all administration options are displayed to all users
regardless of security profiles? Personnally, I have written a client side
hack to hide all the admin options, which can be switched off if the user is
an admin. "

http://blogs.msdn.com/danielmcpherson/archive/2004/05/17/133605.aspx

"Makor" <Makor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:77ECEA87-629E-442B-AC69-D210DDE597E9@microsoft.com...
> Could someone please help me understand the logic behind how Sharepoint
> manages access rights. For example - someone could be given "READER"
rights,
> and yet when they go to a list of items - for example a web part Task List
> that was created from one of the pre-defined web parts, they can get the
same
> list of options for alerts, modify settings, etc. as someone with
> Administrator rights? It is only when they click on the links - and try
and
> do something like change a parameter - that Sharepoint go into error state
> and says they do not have the correct permissions. This is a MAJOR support
> nightmare and a real turn off for most of the customers we implement
> Sharepoint for. They all agree - if the system claims to limit the
"roghts"
> of a user - why does it offer them options to click on that they do not
have
> the rights to in the first place?????
>

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