Sharepoint: Retrieve info on assigned user policy

Question

Case:

Create a User Policy in SharePoint 2010 Web Application Management: assign 'Full read' to user XXX for site YYY;
Call SiteData.asmx/GetContent for site YYY and inspect 'permissions' node.

User XXX is not assigned any permissions for site YYY according to WS call result.

How should I retrieve permissions of XXX for YYY via web services? In which table assigned User Policy is stored in SharePoint Content database?

Hugh Wood · Answer 1 · 2012-11-27 09:46:05Z

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You need to use the usergroup.asmx web service and call "GetGroupCollectionFromUser"

If the returned xml has the correct group in it:

Group[Name='<groupName>']

Then they have permission.

If you need there are also functions in usergroup.asmx to get things like role info etc.

answered Nov 27 '12 at 9:46

Hugh Wood
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	If I do so (assign a policy to the user that has never logged into the site before; login with this user to the SP site), then GetGroupCollectionFromUser returns empty result for me: ` <GetGroupCollectionFromUser xmlns="schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/">; <Groups /> </GetGroupCollectionFromUser>` – pborovik Nov 27 '12 at 12:19
	So you're not defining groups for roles and assigning groups? You would have to get the roles back for the user then. Then you would have to do something a little more complex with GetRolesAndPermissionsForCurrentUser. Where there is a will there is a way. – Hugh Wood Nov 27 '12 at 13:24
	Could you please clarify the purpose of this method (GetRolesAndPermissionsForCurrentUser)? it returns me something even if I call it with invalid credentials, so who is 'current user' then? – pborovik Nov 28 '12 at 10:33
	It should be returning you permissions of basically you have none if the credentials are invalid. – Hugh Wood Nov 28 '12 at 12:06

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