Permission for a SharePoint document using MOSS web services

Question

We have a need to retrieve user groups which have read permissions for a document. We know the URL of the document. The following Permissions service provides the groups which h

Answer 1

Retrieving item-level permissions is not possible with the out-of-the-box web services.

Einar Stangvik has developed a custom web service that does this and provides the source code. If you are able to deploy custom code to the server you can use it.