SharePoint: List all SPBasePermissions for a User

 

This is a sample of code to list every possible permission a user has for a particular object. The object in the code is an SPWeb, but could be a list, folder or item. As I wanted to iterate though the SPBasePermissions enumberation and display the permission names I used the code sample from here.

For a list of the SharePoint permissions see here: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-permission-levels.html

 

There’s got to be a better way to do this… but it works.

 

using System;

using Microsoft.SharePoint;

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;

namespace ConsoleApplication1

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            //username = SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser.LoginName

            string username = @"maxsp2007\stellas";

            using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://MAXsp2007/sites/training"))

            {

                SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb("ateamsite") ; //.RootWeb;

                foreach (string enumName in Enum.GetNames(typeof(SPBasePermissions)))

                {

                    if (web.DoesUserHavePermissions(username,

                        (SPBasePermissions)Enum.Parse(typeof(SPBasePermissions), enumName)))

                    {

                        Console.WriteLine(enumName);

                    }

                }

                Console.ReadLine();

            }

        }

    }

}

 

The result: