Apple Training Series Mac OS X Server Essentials, Second Edition

Inheritance is another tool you can use to enable your structure. The publishing workflow

example using multiple groups is fairly simplistic in that a user either has full read-write

access to a folder and its contents, or can’t see anything inside that folder. With inheritance,

your actual permissions can be more subtle. You may want the Editors group to have read-

only access to the Submissions folder, but still allow only the Writers group to be able to

make changes to files or add new files. Inheritance allows this. Give the Editors read access

on the Submissions folder, and by inheritance they also have read-only access to all files in

the Submissions ...