Editing Rights for a Site Group

You can edit rights for a specific site group.

To edit the rights for a site group, you must at a minimum be a member of the Administrator site group on the portal site. You can also edit the rights for a site group if you are a member of the SharePoint administrators group or if you are a member of the local Administrators group on the front-end Web server on which the portal site is located.

Important  The View Area right must be assigned to the Reader site group if Readers are to be able to view the home page of the portal site.

Edit rights for a site group

1. On the Site Settings page, in the General Settings section, click Manage security and additional settings.
2. On the Manage Security and Additional Settings page, in the Users and Permissions section, click Manage site groups.
3. On the Manage Site Groups page, click the site group for which you want to edit the rights.
4. On the Members of "site_group" page, click Edit Site Group Permissions.
5. On the Change Site Group Permissions page, select the rights for the site group, and then click OK.