Why do two different folders at the same hierarchy level share the same permission ID?

Hsaniba 100

If I directly grant access to Folder A to a user, I receive a permission ID. If I then grant access to Folder B for the same user, I receive the same ID that was given to Folder A instead of a different one. Why are different permissions not given? I'd like to understand the reasoning.

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RaytheonXie_MSFT 31,226 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-04-08T07:41:50.6+00:00

Hi @Hsaniba,

Permission id is for the permission level grant to user, group and app. The two folders with the same permission should have the same permission id. It's an expected behavior. You could refer to the following document for more details

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/site-list-permissions?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

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Hsaniba 100 Reputation points

2024-04-08T10:10:03.7033333+00:00

Firstly, I grant direct access to a user(john) for 'Folder A' inside a folder called general.

Now I was checking the permissions for that Folder A, I have seen more information about that includes Permission Id.

My doubt is, If I grant direct access to the same user(john) for 'Folder B' inside a folder called general(i.e same hierarchy level), then what will be the Permission Id?

Is that same Permission Id or different Permission Id for both the folder to the user?

In my case, Folder A Permissions and Folder B Permissions are same for the user.

RaytheonXie_MSFT 31,226 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-04-09T06:58:05.0966667+00:00

Hi @Hsaniba,

If two different folders have the same user and the user have same role, such as user A have "read" permission for both folder1 and folder2. They will have same permssion id. If user A have "read" permission for folder1 and with "write" permission for folder2, they will have different permission id.

Hsaniba 100 Reputation points

2024-04-09T09:09:23.3633333+00:00

Hi RaytheonXie_MSFT,

I've tried both the cases you mentioned, I receiving same Permission Id. Idk why?

I think one user should have only one permission id because I'd tried another case that is giving direct access for two different folder of different hierarchy level. That also provides same permission id.

If I check permissions info of folder 4 for the specific user(user A), which is equal to permissions info of folder 3.

Can you explain how permission id generated and works?

RaytheonXie_MSFT 31,226 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-04-15T07:22:34.4966667+00:00

Hi @Hsaniba,

Could you share which id you get was permission id? If the permission id is under grantedToIdentities. This is the id of the user
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