diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5bb1c1a2d..098d96e4e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   - Separate upload and download workers
   - Use direct file system writes if available on system
   - Move upload, download fetch calls to workers to reduce messaging overhead
+- (GL #1145) Added new api for modifying write access from container's access control list
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/swift_browser_ui/ui/api.py b/swift_browser_ui/ui/api.py
index 4e5b691cd..29dcea06b 100644
--- a/swift_browser_ui/ui/api.py
+++ b/swift_browser_ui/ui/api.py
@@ -685,8 +685,10 @@ async def remove_container_acl(request: aiohttp.web.Request) -> aiohttp.web.Resp
             raise aiohttp.web.HTTPNotFound()
 
 
-async def modify_container_acl(request: aiohttp.web.Request) -> aiohttp.web.Response:
-    """Modify sharing permission from container acl."""
+async def modify_container_write_acl(
+    request: aiohttp.web.Request,
+) -> aiohttp.web.Response:
+    """Modify write access for a project from container acl."""
     session = await aiohttp_session.get_session(request)
     request.app["Log"].info(
         "API call to modify projects fom container ACL from "
diff --git a/swift_browser_ui/ui/server.py b/swift_browser_ui/ui/server.py
index 246ceeda7..f48685e8b 100644
--- a/swift_browser_ui/ui/server.py
+++ b/swift_browser_ui/ui/server.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     get_os_user,
     get_shared_container_address,
     get_upload_session,
-    modify_container_acl,
+    modify_container_write_acl,
     os_list_projects,
     remove_container_acl,
     remove_project_container_acl,
@@ -245,7 +245,9 @@ async def on_prepare(
                 "/api/access/{project}/{container}/{receiver}",
                 remove_project_container_acl,
             ),
-            aiohttp.web.put("/api/access/{project}/{container}", modify_container_acl),
+            aiohttp.web.put(
+                "/api/access/{project}/{container}", modify_container_write_acl
+            ),
             aiohttp.web.get("/api/meta/{project}", swift_get_project_metadata),
             aiohttp.web.get(
                 "/api/meta/{project}/{container}", swift_get_metadata_container