Any time a new folder is created it automatically inherits permissions from its parent folder. Using permission inheritance, administrators can make large access changes by simply changing group access in a parent folder.
You can modify a folder's permissions even while it is inheriting permissions from a parent folder.
Modifying Permissions
Select a folder in the VFS structure.
Highlight an existing group or user or click Add... to add a User or Group to the selected folder.
Select the user or group you wish to modify permissions for.
Leave Inherit permissions from parent folder checked and check or uncheck any additional permissions
Note that this will affect all sub-folders containing this User or Group who have the Inherit permissions from parent folder turned on.
In the course of server administration, you may want to reconfigure a folder’s settings. You can override a user’s inherited settings by clearing the Inherit permissions from parent folder check box.
If you manually clear Inherit permissions from parent folder, you can configure the folder’s permissions the way you want them. If you later decide you want the folder to inherit permissions again, simply select Inherit permissions from parent folder.
The following instructions show you how to prevent a folder from inheriting its parent folder’s permissions, force a single modified folder to begin inheriting permissions to sub-folders or reset all subfolders of a particular parent folder to inherit permissions from that parent.
Start the Administrator Interface and connect to the Server.
At the bottom of the left pane, click the VFS tab.
In the left pane, expand a Server Group, a Server, and a Site.
Select a folder in the left window. You may need to expand a folder to find the subfolder you want.
In the right pane, clear the Inherit permissions from parent folder check box. A window appears explaining the three options you have.
Click Copy, Remove, or Cancel.
Copy copies the permissions from the parent. You may later edit the permissions.
Remove removes all inherited permissions.
Cancel cancels the change.
Start the Administrator Interface and connect to the Server.
At the bottom of the left pane, click the VFS tab.
In the left pane, expand a Server Group, a Server, and a Site.
Select a folder in the left window. You may need to expand a folder to find the subfolder you want.
In the right window, select the Inherit permissions from parent folder check box. A window appears explaining the three options you have.
Click Leave, Remove, or Cancel.
Leave keeps existing permissions while also inheriting the parent folder’s permission.
Remove removes all previously set permissions and only uses those permissions specifically inherited from the parent.
Cancel cancels the change.
Start the Administrator Interface and connect to the Server.
At the bottom of the left pane, click the VFS tab.
In the left pane, expand a Server Group, a Server, and a Site.
Select the parent folder, the top level folder in the left pane.
Right-click the folder and choose Reset Subfolders.
Note: This will delete all existing permissions from the subfolders and force them to inherit permissions from the selected folder.
Inheriting VFS folder permissions