Microsoft® SharePoint™ 2003 Unleashed, Second Edition

Restricting Access to Documents and Libraries

Security for documents is important for most organizations. Some organizations need to restrict access to specific documents. For example, employee salary information is usually not meant to be publicized; therefore, access to it would be restricted to only those people who needed to work with the documents. As another example, people may be using shared workspaces for collaboration when modifying documents, but the final version goes to a centralized departmental site where write access is restricted to the department manager.

Security is used in multiple ways in SharePoint, as discussed in detail in Chapter 15, “Implementing and Validating SharePoint Security.” This chapter provides an overview ...