# Couple of questions on features

**URL:** https://forum.mattermost.com/t/couple-of-questions-on-features/10631
**Category:** Troubleshooting
**Created:** [October 27, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/couple-of-questions-on-features/10631 "2020-10-27T18:50:57Z")
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### Author: ![Steve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@Steve](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/Steve)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/couple-of-questions-on-features/10631/1 "2020-10-27T18:50:57Z")

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Hey , nice software u have there . Thanks for making it open source. Got some questions after i installed mattermost free edition.

Can i promote someone to a specific channel as moderator?  
Can i disallow people to create their own team (server) ?  
Can i disallow people to create their own channel, edit header, edit users basically everything i just want them to be able to chat on the channels i (admin) add them on the server i(admin) have created? .

I (the admin) just want to set up the team(server) , create public and private channels, assign moderators to those channels (so they can edit, delete, ban users) and that’s it , user will only have permission to chat , edit , delete and that’s all .  
All the users will be coming from my openLDAP server if that makes any difference.

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### Author: ![ahmaddanial](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/ahmaddanial/32/2938_2.png) [@ahmaddanial](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/ahmaddanial)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/couple-of-questions-on-features/10631/2 "2020-10-27T21:09:13Z")

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Hi, @Steve

You are welcome and thanks for the compliment! With reference to the questions that you have here:

- Yes, System Administrator can assign [channel admin](https://docs.mattermost.com/help/getting-started/managing-members.html#channel-admins) to users in specific channels.
- Yes, System Administrator can configure [advanced permissions](https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/advanced-permissions.html#advanced-permissions-e10-e20) to limit team creation to specific account types:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mattermost/original/2X/2/21cd75259d08f1a4079370965f0138e44c9a64e2.png)
- Yes, similar to the feature I shared above. The [advanced permissions](https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/advanced-permissions.html#advanced-permissions-e10-e20) allow System Administrators to control permission of different users (all users / channel administrators / team administrators).  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mattermost/original/2X/0/0e3823c8790e521ce03317128917c5a715bbc68c.png)

Take note that the advanced permission feature is only available for E10 / E20 offering. I’d recommend you to check on the the [FREE 30-day trial](https://mattermost.com/trial/) and play around with the features available to understand them better. Hope that helps.