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What does the content “Inherited from:” in List of effective permissions for users and groups on folders or files the reports refer to ?

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What does the content “Inherited from:” in List of effective permissions for users and groups on folders or files the reports refer to ?

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The list of groups in which the user is directly or indirectly (nested) member of are reported in Type (Inherited & Explicit) field after “Inherited from: ” text in the effective permissions report. Effective permission is resultant permission that is calculated using the permissions that are set explicitly and inherited by way of user membership in groups. Consider a user named John reported under User/Group Name field with the following values for Type (Inherited & Explicit) field: Example 1: “Inherited from: pathfinder\administration denotes that the user is a member of administration group directly. Example 2: “Inherited from: pathfinder\research -> pathfinder\design -> pathfinder\development” denotes that the user is indirect member of “research” by means of nested group design and development.

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