# Setting your project's permissions

As a project admin, you can update your project’s permissions manually or, with a [Team or Enterprise plan](https://www.sonarsource.com/plans-and-pricing/sonarcloud/) organization, reset the default permissions and apply a permission template defined by the organization administrator.

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If you are an organization admin, you can:

* Apply a permission template to several projects of your Enterprise plan organization at a time. See [projects-management-page](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/managing-organization/manage-org-projects/projects-management-page "mention") for more information.
* Recover administration access to an organization’s project. See [recovering-admin-access](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/managing-organization/manage-org-projects/manage-project-permissions/recovering-admin-access "mention") for more information.
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## Permissions related to a project <a href="#project-level-permissions" id="project-level-permissions"></a>

<table><thead><tr><th width="192">Permission Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Browse Project</td><td><p>Applies only to private projects (Anyone, including anonymous users, can view the public projects.).</p><p>Can view the project.</p></td></tr><tr><td>See Source Code</td><td><p>Applies only to private projects.</p><p>Can view the source code (via API and web view) provided the Browse project permission is also granted.</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Anonymous and unauthorized users are prevented from easily downloading public projects’ source code via API and web views.</p></td></tr><tr><td>Administer Issues</td><td><p>Can perform the following actions:</p><p>• Accept an issue</p><p>• Mark an issue as False positive</p></td></tr><tr><td>Administer Security Hotspots</td><td>Can change the status of a security hotspot. For private projects, the Browse project permission must also be granted.</td></tr><tr><td>Execute Analysis on project</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></ul><p><strong>Note</strong>: Users with the <strong>Execute Analysis</strong> permission at the organization level are able to scan projects, even if they don’t have any explicit project permissions.</p></td></tr><tr><td>Administer project</td><td><p>Can perform the following actions:</p><p>• Delete a project.</p><p>• Change the project settings including project-level permissions.</p><p>• Configure various project functions, such as PDF reporting, snapshots, and webhooks.</p><p>For private projects, the Browse project permission must also be granted.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Updating the permissions of your project <a href="#updating-resetting-permissions" id="updating-resetting-permissions"></a>

To update the permissions of your project:

1. Retrieve your project. See [retrieving-projects](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/retrieving-projects "mention") for more details.
2. Go to **Administration** > **Permissions**. The **Permissions** page opens.
3. Filter the page by **Users** or **Groups**, or search for a specific user or group.
4. Select the check boxes to change the permissions.
5. Click **Apply Permission Template** to apply a predefined set of permissions to your project. See [#apply-template-to-several-projects](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/managing-organization/manage-org-projects/manage-project-permissions/templates#apply-template-to-several-projects "mention") for more information.

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## Changing the project’s visibility <a href="#changing-visibility" id="changing-visibility"></a>

The project’s visibility may be:

* Public: Anyone, including anonymous users, can view public projects. A public project may be part of any organization.
* Or private: Only authorized users, who are members of the organization, can view a private project. By default, the visibility of newly created projects is set to private on [Free, Team and Enterprise](https://www.sonarsource.com/plans-and-pricing/#sonarqube-cloud-features) plans.

If you’re a project admin, you can change your project’s visibility.

To change the visibility of your project:

1. Retrieve your project. See [retrieving-projects](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/retrieving-projects "mention") for more details.
2. Go to **Administration** > **Permissions**. The **Permissions** page opens.
3. In the **Project visibility** section, select the **Public** or **Private** checkbox. (You can also upgrade your organization from this section.) The **Turn to Private / Public** dialog opens.
4. Confirm the change.

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

* [setting-up-project](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/administering-your-projects/setting-up-project "mention")
* [devops-platform-integration](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/administering-your-projects/devops-platform-integration "mention")
* [changing-binding](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/administering-your-projects/changing-binding "mention")
* [customizing-info-page](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/administering-your-projects/customizing-info-page "mention")
* [deleting-project](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/administering-your-projects/deleting-project "mention")