# Subcategories do not inherit permissions from parent category

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/subcategories-do-not-inherit-permissions-from-parent-category/17174>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [3 Luglio 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subcategories-do-not-inherit-permissions-from-parent-category/17174 "2014-07-03T18:41:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![mpalmer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mpalmer/32/45740_2.png) [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)\
**Post date:** [9 Febbraio 2018, 8:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subcategories-do-not-inherit-permissions-from-parent-category/17174/13 "2018-02-09T08:52:52Z")

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I’ll add myself to the set of people for whom inheriting permissions from the parent category would be the least surprising behaviour. It’s also the safer option, because it fails closed (users can’t see subcategory they expected to see), rather than failing open (users can see subcategory they… really shouldn’t).

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