I have just tried your usecase and it works without any issue. Feel free to
try it out yourself on a clean XWiki instance.

Please double check your rights and that the user you are testing with is
not denied from another group he might be member of.

Thanks,
Eduard

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Yvan Arnaud <arn...@smaract.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the misunderstanding. I meant child page when I wrote subpage.
>
> So I'll try to be more precise:
> I set specific rights on the space A: only group A has read/write
> permission.
> I create a page P1 in space A without parent and set specific right on
> that page: group B has read permission
> It works as expected: group A has read/write permissions and group B has
> read permission on page P1.
> If I create a page P2 as a child from Webhome page and set the read
> permission to group B on that page then group B has no right to read the
> page.
>
> I forgot to specify that I'm working with XWiki 6.3.
>
> Thanks
> Yvan
>
> Am 07.01.2015 um 13:39 schrieb Eduard Moraru:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> XWiki has no notion of "subpages". All the pages inside a space are at the
>> same level.
>>
>> If you are using a parent-child relationship between 2 pages, it has no
>> impact on rights, i.e. the rights of the parent page are not inherited to
>> the child page. This only works on a page-space relationship, i.e. the
>> pages of a space inherit the rights of the space.
>>
>> So if you have 2 pages P1 and P2 inside space A and you set the same
>> rights
>> on both P1 and P2, but P1 is the parent of P2, the rights work only on P1,
>> but not on P2? Is this what you are describing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eduard
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Yvan Arnaud <arn...@smaract.de> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> I've started working with XWiki for a short time and I'm facing a probem
>>> with the rights management.
>>> I configured XWiki so every registered users have read permission as
>>> default.
>>> Then I created some private spaces with read access for a specific group
>>> of users. Let's say group A has read permission on space A.
>>> Other groups don't have access to this space A. So it is fine.
>>> But I need sometimes to allow some specific groups or users to access
>>> some
>>> specific pages in this space. For example, group B should have read
>>> access
>>> on page 1 of space A.
>>> I modified the access rights of the page accordingly. The problem is: it
>>> doesn't work when the page is a subpage. It is working fine if the page
>>> is
>>> at the root of the space.
>>> Is it a normal behaviour? What shall I do to make this work?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Yvan Arnaud
>>>
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