User with read permissions cannot share file\folder with site collection administrator but can share with another regular users

Question

Regular user has read permissions to the folder. User can share this folder with another regular users but faced error when trying to share folder with site collection administrator.

Error - The recipient you entered doesn't have permission to access the item.

If we grant site collection admin role to regular user the problem will go away. But we cannot go by this way.

See image. Regular user trying to share folder with site collection administrator.

Lockdown limited access feature is deactivated.

Answer 1

That's an interesting bug. I can reproduce it in my tenant. My guess is that the read only user has permission to see the permissions of other users, but wouldn't have access to know who site collection admins are.

The workaround would be to add the site collection administrator as an Owner (as well as being a site collection admin).

Regular read only user could remain as read only user.

Answer 2

Finally we've requested support from MS. MS confirmed that this issue is by design and advise us to add an idea on SharePoint Community site.

We created an idea on community site.