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<section id="set-projects-creator-permissions">
<title>Setting Project Creator Permissions</title>
<para>You can configure &PRODUCT; to allow any user to create a new project, or you can restrict
that ability to just &PRODUCT; administrators.</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Log in as administrator to the &PRODUCT; UI.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>In the left navigation, click Global Settings.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>In the search box, type allow.user.create.projects.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Click the edit button to set the parameter.<inlinemediaobject>
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<tbody>
<row>
<entry><para>allow.user.create.projects</para></entry>
<entry><para>Set to true to allow end users to create projects. Set to false if you
want only the &PRODUCT; root administrator and domain administrators to create
projects.</para></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Restart the Management Server.</para>
<programlisting># service cloudstack-management restart</programlisting>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>