# Granting permissions to users

With the Administer Quality Profiles permission, you can authorize users or groups to manage a specific custom quality profile, it means to:

* Activate or deactivate rules.
* Associate the profile with projects.
* Change the profile’s parent.
* Rename the profile.
* Authorize other users to manage the profile.

To authorize other users to manage a custom quality profile:

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1. Go to the **Quality Profiles** page and retrieve the quality profile.
2. In the **Permissions** section, select **Grant permissions to more users**. The **Grant permissions to a user or a group** dialog opens.
3. Select the user or group.
4. Select **Add**.

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

* [viewing-quality-profiles](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-profiles/viewing-quality-profiles "mention")
* [understanding-quality-profiles](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-profiles/understanding-quality-profiles "mention")
* [viewing-quality-profiles](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-profiles/viewing-quality-profiles "mention")
* [creating-a-quality-profile](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-profiles/creating-a-quality-profile "mention")
* [editing-a-custom-quality-profile](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-profiles/editing-a-custom-quality-profile "mention")[editing-a-custom-quality-profile](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-profiles/editing-a-custom-quality-profile "mention")
* [associating-a-quality-profile-with-projects](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-profiles/associating-a-quality-profile-with-projects "mention")
* [changing-default-quality-profile](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-profiles/changing-default-quality-profile "mention")
* [maintaining-your-custom-quality-profiles](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-profiles/maintaining-your-custom-quality-profiles "mention")