Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® SharePoint™ 2003 in 10 Minutes

Understanding Site Groups

A Site Administrator has full rights to add additional users and groups of users to a site. By doing so, he or she allows those users to have access to the site. The type of access they get is determined by the site group they are added into. By default, Windows SharePoint Services makes use of four standard site groups. These site groups are defined as follows:

• Reader— Members of this site group have read-only access to a site. This group is useful when you need to grant a user or a group of users the ability to read, but not modify, information in the site.

• Contributor— Members of this site group can add content to document libraries and lists, unless they are explicitly denied access to them. This is a common site ...