View effective permissions

Several tabs of the Security Management page display the effective permissions for the user (such as the File Groups tab and the Tables tab). Effective permissions for a user represent all relevant security settings, including:

Inherited role permissions
Subsystem restrictions
Administrator permissions

Use effective permissions to view all of a user's permissions.

For example, if you select a table type or a table on the Tables tab, the Configured Permissions section displays the permissions that are granted at the user level, and the Effective Permissions section displays the actual access rights of the user. In the following example, although the user has no configured access to the table type, her effective permission is Full Access. Either the user is assigned to a role with full access to the table type or the user has been granted administrator rights. You can view which rights contribute to the effective permissions by clicking the Show Details link.

Example effective permissions

As edits are made in the page, changes are reflected immediately in the effective permissions. For example, if you grant a user permission to Administer Imports, and then switch to the Files tab, the effective permissions for the Imports Library reflects that the user has full permissions to all imports, even though the change has not yet been saved.