# Managing organization permissions

This section explains how to manage the user and group permissions related to an organization.

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* It’s recommended to manage the permissions through the user groups, see [Managing user groups](/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/managing-organization/users-and-permissions/user-groups.md). This feature is available starting in Team plan. In addition, with the Team plan, you can manage the permissions set by default to new projects, see [Using permission templates](/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/managing-organization/manage-org-projects/manage-project-permissions/templates.md).
* If you lost administrator access to your organization, send a request to [contact@sonarsource.com](http://contact@sonarsource.com) with all the necessary details.
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## Permissions related to an organization <a href="#permissions-related-to-organization" id="permissions-related-to-organization"></a>

The following permissions are available for an organization:

<table><thead><tr><th width="224">Permission Type</th><th width="524">Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Administer organization</strong></td><td><p>Has full control over the administration functions for the organization, including the following permission-related functions:</p><ul><li>Management of the organization’s user and group permissions</li><li>Management of project template permissions</li><li>Recovery of project administrator permissions. See <a data-mention href="/pages/RFDDT2Dz7HGpFxocV0Cj">/pages/RFDDT2Dz7HGpFxocV0Cj</a> for more information.</li><li>Bulk apply of project permission templates. See <a data-mention href="/pages/94a2836yBMtNaqs6SQ6e">/pages/94a2836yBMtNaqs6SQ6e</a> for more information.</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Administer Quality Gates</strong></td><td>Can create and update <a data-mention href="/pages/8xApxZtaDzjCuy6eb9oB">/pages/8xApxZtaDzjCuy6eb9oB</a> that can be applied to the organization’s projects.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Administer Quality Profiles</strong></td><td>Can create and update quality profiles that can be applied to the organization’s projects. See <a data-mention href="/pages/OEWS8DYTT3K2UXi6ACv7">/pages/OEWS8DYTT3K2UXi6ACv7</a> for more details.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Execute analysis</strong></td><td><p>Grants the ability to: </p><ul><li>Retrieve all settings required to run the analysis, including secured credentials like passwords.</li><li>Push analysis results to SonarQube Cloud.</li><li>Run scans on any project in the organization, including private ones, regardless of existing project-level permissions.</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Create projects</strong></td><td>Can create new projects in the organization.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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View access to organizations is not managed through permissions but depends on the organization’s subscription plan: any user can view a free plan organization whereas access to a Team or Enterprise plan organization is restricted to its members. See [Subscription plans](/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/managing-subscription/subscription-plans.md) for more information.
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## Setting the permissions of the groups and users <a href="#setting-permissions" id="setting-permissions"></a>

You must be an organization admin to be able to manage the permissions related to your organization.

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If you have a Free plan organization, you cannot change group permissions.
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To set the organization-related permissions of the groups and users:

1. Retrieve your organization. See [Retrieving your organizations](/sonarqube-cloud/getting-started/viewing-organizations.md) for more information.
2. Go to **Permissions.**
3. Select **All**, **Users**, or **Groups** to filter the results, or search for specific users or groups.
4. Apply permissions for users or groups by checking the boxes in the appropriate columns. The permission options are: **Administer Organization,** **Administer Quality Gate**, **Administer Quality Profile**, **Execute Analysis**, **Create Projects**.

<div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/GaVvnqBvnYeVz3Sm2kva" alt="Permissions page with various permission options you can apply to an organiation"><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>

## Transferring ownership of an organization <a href="#transferring-ownership-of-organization" id="transferring-ownership-of-organization"></a>

As the administrator, there may be cases where you wish to transfer ownership of an organization. For example, if you are leaving a team or company, you can simply grant the **Administer Organization** permission to another member.

## Related pages <a href="#related-pages" id="related-pages"></a>

* [Adding organization members](/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/managing-organization/users-and-permissions/organization-members.md)
* [Managing user groups](/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/managing-organization/users-and-permissions/user-groups.md)
* [User onboarding and offboarding](/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/managing-organization/users-and-permissions/user-on-and-offboarding.md)
* [Disabling GitHub member synchronization](/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/managing-organization/users-and-permissions/github-member-sync.md)
* [Recovering organization admin access](/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/managing-organization/recovering-org-admin-access.md)
* [Permissions](/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/permissions.md)


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