User who have MANAGE_ROLES but not MANAGE_CHANNEL could escalate this permission about discord-api-docs

[ckohen]

Manage permissions in an override allows you to set any permissions on that channel. When you have it guild wide your guild wide permissions restrict which you can set.

I thought this was documented, couldn't find it but night did say it here: #3756 (comment)

[Starmania]

This permission allows a role to create new roles beneath them, then edit them accordingly. Keep in mind that this role comes 2nd to the Administrator role, and although you can add, edit, and assign new roles to users, you still can't edit your role and roles above yours. Additionally, you can only assign permissions that you have to roles under you. If your role doesn't have banning members enabled, you can't let other users ban them either. Duh.

This was perfect in my case... So this is a feature and not a bug... I would argue that this permission is closer to the administrator role than anything else.

Why not a new permission ?

[ckohen]

That is still the case, as long as you don't have an explicit override to allow manage permissions on a channel

[lmle]

Hey there! I'm going to remove the bug tag since this is working as intended and close the issue. @Starmania, if you would like to discuss about whether this should be a new permission, I recommend creating a new discussion.

[Starmania]

@lmle True, it wasn't qualifiable as a bug if it was intended, but there is still documentation to add. As Ckohen said, this sentence is missing in current docs:

Manage permissions in an override allows you to set any permissions on that channel.

[lmle]

I'll forward this this request to my team to update documentation. Thank you!