# Subcategory does not inherit security settings

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/subcategory-does-not-inherit-security-settings/101122
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 2, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subcategory-does-not-inherit-security-settings/101122 "2018-11-02T08:57:52Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subcategory-does-not-inherit-security-settings/101122/5 "2018-11-02T19:26:22Z")

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> [@Subcategories do not inherit permissions from parent category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subcategories-do-not-inherit-permissions-from-parent-category/17174):
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> This is looks as a very severe bug, so apologies if someone already posted it, but I don’t know how to search for it. Here it goes: The bug Given I’m user who is not in the group staff, When I go to the main listing of topics - / root of the discourse, Then I see even the topics, that should be hidden to me, because I don’t have read privileges for them. Also, in the listing, I can see the topic title, but the topic category is hidden. When I click on the topic, that should be hidden, only…

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