Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

428 Part V: Administration of Windows SharePoint Services
6. In the Rights area, select any additional rights that you want the site group to
contain, and clear any rights that you do not want the site group to contain.
7. Click Create Site Group.
You can also edit an existing site group to change the rights assigned to that
site group.
To edit an existing site group
1. On the Manage Site Groups page, click the site group you want to change.
2. On the Members Of “Site Group Name” page, click Edit Site Group
Permissions.
3. On the Edit Site Group “Site Group Name” page, select the rights you want to
include and clear any rights that you do not want.
4. Click OK.
If you find that a site group is not used, you can delete the site group.
To delete an existing site group
1. On the Manage Site Groups page, select the check box next to the site group
you want to delete.
2. Click Delete Selected Site groups.
Using the Command Line to View Site Groups
You can view the list of site groups from the command line in Windows SharePoint
Services by using the enumroles operation. This operation takes the -url parameter,
and then simply lists the names of the site groups for that URL, so you can use the
correct site group name when assigning permissions to users. For example, to view
the list of site groups for a site at http://myserver/site1, you would type the following
command:
Stsadm –o enumroles –url http://myserver/site1
Assigning Per-List Permissions
Windows SharePoint Services provides the ability to control permissions on a per-list
basis. If you have sensitive information stored in a list and you do not want to
expose the information to all members of your site, you can set permissions for just
that list to control which users can view, edit, or add items to that list. You can grant
permissions to a list or document library to individual users, to groups of users, or
to a site group. Per-list permissions work for any list or document library in a website
based on Windows SharePoint Services (for example, Announcements, Tasks,
Shared Documents, and so on).