Give user total control to all subsites

Question

I am in a sharepoint application that was already built using MOSS 2007.

At this application my user has total control on the admnistration and is a administrator on the root website http://rootwebsite, but not on the subsites.

I used the Check Effective Permissions from the Sharepoint Administrations Toolkit and is showing that my user has:

Total Control, Limited Access | Given Directly 
Collaboration, Limited Access | Subsite 2
Collaboration, Limited Access | Subsite 3
Collaboration, Limited Access | Subsite 4
.
.

And in Site Collection Administrator I am one of the administrators. Now I am trying to edit the page where the search goes.

http://www.servername.com/_layouts/searchresults.aspx

and there isnt the edit option on action button. How can I make this user to have a total control of all subsites ?

Answer 1

The searchresults.aspx page is used farm-wide, not for a specific site or site collection. This page is essentially an application page, which is why you can't edit it. If you need a custom search page, you'll need to build a page, add the applicable web parts, then tell your site to use that custom page instead of the default farm-wide one.