Editing Folder Permissions

To edit folder permissions, you must have a role that has the Administer Folder permission, and the Owner permission for the folder. If Inherit Permissions from Parent Folder is disabled, you must also have the Owner permission for the parent folder.

To edit folder permissions:

  1. Navigate to the folder you wish to edit: Secrets > Folders > [Your Folder].

  2. Click on the ellipsis button next to the folder name and select Edit Folder. The Overview tab page appears.

  3. Select the Permissions tab, and click Edit. The Folder Permissions section becomes editable.

    The Inherit Permissions checkbox indicates if the permissions are applied from the parent folder. When inheriting permissions from a parent folder, the permissions cannot be updated here but only in the parent/root folder.
    Root folders cannot inherit folder permissions.

  4. If necessary, click to deselect the Inherit Permissions checkbox. The permissions section becomes editable.

    The Inherit Permissions box needs to be deselected to view Allowable Templates.

  5. Change the Scope to All, to see all available users and groups.

    1. To remove a user, deselect the checkbox next to that user.

    2. To add a user or group, select the checkbox next to each user/group and set the Folder and Secret permissions that appear.

      Applying different filters, such as searching for a user, will not remove any pending changes.

  6. Select the permissions for each desired user/group:

    1. From the Folder Permissions dropdown list select one of the following:

      • View (folder)

      • Add Secret (to folder)

      • Edit (folder)

      • Owner (of the folder).

        These options are listed in order of increasing permissions.

    2. Click the Secret Permissions cell to open the permission panel, and select one of the following using the radio buttons:

      • None

      • List (secrets in folder)

      • View (secrets in folder)

      • Edit (secrets in folder)

      • Owner (of secrets in folder).

        These options are listed in order of increasing permissions.

      For the View and Edit roles, an Extended Permissions section appears with checkboxes:

      • Edit Dependencies: Grants the ability to manage dependencies on secrets within this folder. Selected by default for the Edit role.

    Each user or group can have explicit folder and secret permissions. Permissions set on a folder, including extended permissions, are applied to all secrets and child folders that inherit permissions from this folder.

  7. Click Save to commit your changes or the Cancel button to remove all pending changes.

Extended permissions, such as Edit Dependencies, follow the same inheritance rules as role-based permissions. When a secret or child folder inherits permissions, it also inherits the extended permissions. Breaking inheritance on a secret or subfolder allows independent control of extended permissions.