Read all items when when item-level permissions set

Question

I have a SharePoint 2010 list where the general user population should be able to submit and read only their own items.
Item-level permissions set as follows:
Read access : Read items that were created by the user
Creaed and Edit access : Create items and edit items that were created by the user
That works fine.
Now, I have a small group of power users that need read-access to all list items. I can do that by granting 'Contribute' permissions, but I don't want them to be able to modify items, so I prefer granting only read permissions. When I do that, they can't
see all the items due to the item-level permission settings.
Is there a permission level that I can use (perhaps a custom permission level) that enables a read-all (and overrides the item-level permission)?

Answer 1

With these specific settings, there are not. It is possible to do security through obscurity by only showing views that allow the users to see their items and use audience targeting for the others, but that is not true security, so it will depend on your
requirements.
Andy Wessendorf SharePoint Developer II | Rackspace [email protected]