letting the a group of users to be owner of SiteCollection....?

Question

Is the quoted question below is possible in sharepoint, if yes, please suggest some solution too. I will be grateful.

"Can we let a group of users to make their own site collections, and then to make them the owners of their own site collections. Mind you, other users in a group should not be able to access each others site collections. Unless, they are given permission by the sitecollection owner."

Thank you.

Answer 1

To do this for sites (not site collections)

• create a custom group with the create site permissions
• Add the users to the group
• when they create a site, they will be the owner of the site and can assign permissions to that site (only if they check the "Use Unique Permissions") when creating the site collection.

I am pretty sure you can do the same for site collections, however you would do that through central admin rather than the top level site itself.

Answer 2

Hi, I have another question please. Is it possible to customize the page to enable the "use Unique permission" radio button checked and disable it?