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# What is Drive Inheritance?

Drive inheritance is the default permissions that a drive has for their workspace members. This means, that for a drive, the default drive permission will be defined for all workspace members if they are not explicitly added to the drive with a certain permission level (i.e. all workspace members, by default, will have "full access" to this new drive XYZ). This inheritance can be changed by any administrator of the drive or a workspace admin.

You can easily change the default inheritance for workspace members on a drive by heading into Settings > Drives > \<Drive Name> > Members > Default Inheritance.

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