<p>I found that turning on Admin (and saving) and then turning it off will reset the user's permissions to their group defaults.  It's not the fastest, but faster than going through all the checkboxes.</p>

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Carmela S
<p>Is it a matter of clearing the userpermissions_users table?</p>

<p>Background: After initial authoring, we've cleaned up permissions for our usergroups, but the existing users have accumulated manually-added permissions as sections got added.  Would be nice to be able to blanket-remove all the custom permissions.
(Also, "Deselect All" in the User Settings' Permissions tab is doing a select-all instead.)
Thanks.</p>

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Is there an easy way to reset user permissions back to usergroup settings?
# Is there an easy way to reset user permissions back to usergroup settings?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-08-13)

Is it a matter of clearing the userpermissions\_users table?

Background: After initial authoring, we've cleaned up permissions for our usergroups, but the existing users have accumulated manually-added permissions as sections got added. Would be nice to be able to blanket-remove all the custom permissions.
(Also, "Deselect All" in the User Settings' Permissions tab is doing a select-all instead.)
Thanks.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2019-09-03. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

I found that turning on Admin (and saving) and then turning it off will reset the user's permissions to their group defaults. It's not the fastest, but faster than going through all the checkboxes.


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