# Should site admins be able to push to repos even if not part of an organization

**URL:** <https://forum.gitea.com/t/should-site-admins-be-able-to-push-to-repos-even-if-not-part-of-an-organization/8324>\
**Category:** Gitea Usages\
**Created:** [December 18, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/should-site-admins-be-able-to-push-to-repos-even-if-not-part-of-an-organization/8324 "2023-12-18T22:20:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![labDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e274bd/32.png) [@labDuck](https://forum.gitea.com/u/labDuck)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/should-site-admins-be-able-to-push-to-repos-even-if-not-part-of-an-organization/8324/1 "2023-12-18T22:20:47Z")

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I was testing team permissions for an organization and found that because I’m an admin for the gitea site I can push to any repo, or branch as long as it doesn’t have branch protection. This seems concerning to me as I would have expected that if I put my user in a read only access team for an org that I wouldn’t be able to push to it. This doesn’t seem to be the case, and I can push no matter where my user is associated with.

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**Author:** ![lunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/lunny/32/4701_2.png) [@lunny](https://forum.gitea.com/u/lunny)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2023, 1:38am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/should-site-admins-be-able-to-push-to-repos-even-if-not-part-of-an-organization/8324/2 "2023-12-19T01:38:00Z")

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Yes, maybe we should prevent site admin to do so except they add themselves to the member of that repositories.