Why Parent pushing their own permissions to child with broken permissions

Question

Scenario:

Folder Structure:

**Apparel** (broken inheritance)

      **Hie T1** (broken inheritance)

     
               **Hie T2** (broken inheritance)

              
                           **Name.docx** (broken inheritance)
```1. **Permissions**:

 **Name.docx**: User A has direct permissions.

```yaml
**Apparel**: User A has permissions.

 Explanation:

 
1. **Name.docx**: I've granted User A direct permissions to this file. It has a unique permission set for User A.

1. **Apparel**: I've granted User A permissions at the top-most folder level. SharePoint tries to push these permissions down to all child items, including those with broken inheritance.

1. **Hie T1 & Hie T2**: Even though these folders have broken inheritance, SharePoint still tries to apply the permissions from Apparel. Thus, User A gets access to these folders as well.

   I need know that why the top most parent pushing permissions to child items(hie t1, hie T2) even though I didn't explicitly?

Answer 1

Hi @Hsaniba,

Thank you for your reply, and I apologize that I misunderstood your question before.

The reason for this issue is that this option is selected by default when we give permissions to a folder:

This option causes child folders to inherit the parent folder's permissions, even if they break them.

You can make all folders revert to inherited permissions first, then break the permissions. Finally, uncheck this option when setting permissions on Apparel.

Reference: Sharing SharePoint folder items with unique permissions.

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Answer 2

Hi @Hsaniba,

Thank you for posting in this community.

I'd like to confirm your question to you first: you broke the permissions of Apparel, Hie T1, Hie T2 and Name.docx wanting user A to have access to Name.docx but not Hie T1, Hie T2. Please correct me if I have misunderstood.

Did you break Apparel's inherited permissions first, add user A's permissions and then break Hie T1, Hie T2 and Name.docx 's inherited permissions in turn?

If so, then Hie T1, Hie T2 and Name.docx breaking permissions will by default align with Apparel's permissions. After breaking the permissions, you need to recheck the current permission level of the current item and remove the permissions of the users you don't need. Breaking permissions simply indicates that you can customize your own permissions without having to align them with the parent.

You can navigate to the Permissions page for Hie T1 and Hie T2, clicking on the Check Permissions button, entering user A and checking the status of user A's permissions for Hie T1 and Hie T2. If there are permissions, you can select user A and remove it.

I would recommend that the next time you want to grant special permissions, you break permission inheritance before adding permissions. That way you don't inherit the parent's permissions.

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