## Quality Profile permissions
-By default, only users with the **Administer Quality Profiles** permission can edit Quality Profiles. This is set at **Administration > Security > Global Permissions**.
+By default, only users with the global **Administer Quality Profiles** permission can edit Quality Profiles. This is set at **Administration > Security > Global Permissions**.
-SonarQube also lets you to grant permission to users or groups for specific Quality Profiles, so you can delegate profile management to a group of experts for that language. These users or groups only have permissions for that specific profile, not all Quality Profiles.
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-A user with the **Administer Quality Profiles** permission or individual edit rights for a specific Quality Profile can grant permissions on Quality Profile pages (**Quality Profiles > [ Profile Name ]**) under the **Permissions** heading.
+SonarQube also allows users with the global **Administer Quality Profiles** permission to give an expert or group of experts permission to manage a specific Quality Profile. These experts only have permission for that Quality Profile, not all Quality Profiles. Grant permissions to specific Quality Profiles on the Quality Profile's page (**Quality Profiles > [Quality Profile name]**) under the **Permissions** heading by clicking the **Grant permissions to more users** button.
## Copying a Quality Profile
Copying a profile works well when you need to make a few changes to a built-in profile. When you copy a profile, you start off with all of the activated rules from the profile you copied from. From here, you can activate or deactivate rules to fit your needs. After copying a profile, your new profile won't inherit any changes made to the original profile.
To set global permissions, log in as a System administrator and go to **[Administration > Security > Global Permissions](/#sonarqube-admin#/admin/permissions)**.
* **Administer System**: All administration functions for the instance: global configuration.
-* **Administer Quality Profiles**: Any action on Quality Profiles.
-* **Administer Quality Gates**: Any action on quality gates
+* **Administer Quality Profiles**: Any action on Quality Profiles, including delegating permissions to specific Quality Profiles.
+* **Administer Quality Gates**: Any action on Quality Gates, including delegating permissions to specific Quality Gates.
* **Execute Analysis**: Access to all settings required to perform analysis and the ability to push analysis results to the SonarQube server. This includes private project settings but excludes secured settings like passwords.
* **Create Projects**: Initialize the structure of a new project before its first analysis. This permission is also required when doing the very first analysis of a project that has not already been created via the GUI. * **
* **Create Applications**: Create a new Application. * **
Which is why you can define as many quality gates as you need. You can access the **[Quality Gates](/#sonarqube#/quality_gates)** page from the top menu. From here you can define and manage your Quality Gates.
+## Quality Gate permissions
+By default, only users with the global **Administer Quality Gates** permission can edit Quality Gates. This is set at **Administration > Security > Global Permissions**.
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+SonarQube also allows users with the global **Administer Quality Gates** permission to give an expert or group of experts permission to manage a specific Quality Gate. These experts only have permission for that Quality Gate, not all Quality Gates. Grant permissions to specific Quality Gate on the Quality Gate's page (**Quality Gates > [Quality Gate name]**) under the **Permissions** heading by clicking the **Grant permissions to more users** button.
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## Use the best Quality Gate configuration
The "Sonar way" Quality Gate is provided by SonarSource, activated by default, and considered as built-in and read-only. This Quality Gate represents the best way to implement the [Clean as You Code](/user-guide/clean-as-you-code/) concept by focusing on new code. With each SonarQube release, we automatically adjust this default quality gate according to SonarQube's capabilities.