Are Workspace permissions overridden with Shared report link?

[arock-well]

I have employee with no rights to a Workspace. If they try to access the Workspace it denies them access, as expected.

However, it appears if I or someone shares a link to a report in that same restricted Workspace that same employee can go view the report. This was not expected as I thought they'd get a similar access denied message.

Why is this happening and how can I stop this behavior?

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

@arock-well That is the intended behavior. How else would you be able to share a report without giving access to the entire workspace? You would need to go in and remove the link that was sent to the user.