Sharepoint 2007 : Managing Site Security - Set Users’ Permissions on a Site (part 2) - Add Users’ Permissions Directly to or Remove Them from a Site

Add Users’ Permissions Directly to or Remove Them from a Site

If you do not want to add a user to a SharePoint group in a site, but instead want to give that user a specific set of permissions unrelated to a specific group, navigate to the site’s security page and click the All People link on the left navigation bar (see Figure 5).

Figure 5. The All People page.

To add users to the site, click the New button. This opens a page where you can select the users and select what permissions they will have on the site by choosing the Give Users Permission Directly option (see Figure 6).

Figure 6. Adding users directly to a site.

You can either type the names of the people you want to add in the Add Users box at the top or click the address book icon to use a people search dialog to select the users. Then select the permission levels you want the people to have on the site; you can select more than one permission level—for example, Contribute and Approve—which will allow the users you selected to add list items and files to the site and approve documents that they or other people have added. Remember, the higher permission always wins, so the user or security group has all the permissions from all the permission levels. 

To remove users from a site, select the users on the All People page, open the Actions menu on the toolbar, and select Delete Users from Site Collection (see Figure 7). This removes the users from the site, including any SharePoint groups the users belonged to.

Figure 7. Removing users directly from a site.

Change Users’ or SharePoint Groups’ Permissions in a Site

To change the permissions that are allocated to a user or group in a site, navigate to the site’s security settings page, and then click the Site Permissions link on the left navigation bar. This opens a page showing what permission levels each user or group has been allocated in the site (see Figure 8).

Figure 8. The permissions page shows the permissions each group or user has on the site.

To change the permission levels, select the users or groups that you want to change, open the Actions menu on the toolbar, and select Edit User Permissions from the menu (see Figure 9).

Figure 9. Select Edit User Permissions.

You then have the option to set what permissions those users or groups will have (see Figure 10). Select them, and click OK to set the permissions levels.

Figure 10. Select what permissions the users and\or groups should have.