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This version of GitHub Enterprise was discontinued on 2022-10-12. No patch releases will be made, even for critical security issues. For better performance, improved security, and new features, upgrade to the latest version of GitHub Enterprise. For help with the upgrade, contact GitHub Enterprise support.

Managing users in your enterprise

You can audit user activity and manage user settings.

  • Roles in an enterprise

    Everyone in an enterprise is a member of the enterprise. To control access to your enterprise's settings and data, you can assign different roles to members of your enterprise.

  • Best practices for user security

    Outside of instance-level security measures (SSL, subdomain isolation, configuring a firewall) that a site administrator can implement, there are steps your users can take to help protect your enterprise.

  • Inviting people to manage your enterprise

    You can add enterprise owners to your enterprise account. You can also remove enterprise owners who no longer need access to the enterprise account.

  • Promoting or demoting a site administrator

    Site administrators can promote any normal user account to a site administrator, as well as demote other site administrators to regular users.

  • Viewing people in your enterprise

    To audit access to enterprise-owned resources or user license usage, enterprise owners can view every administrator and member of the enterprise.

  • Auditing users across your enterprise

    The audit log dashboard shows site administrators the actions performed by all users and organizations across your enterprise within the current month and previous six months. The audit log includes details such as who performed the action, what the action was, and when the action was performed.

  • Managing dormant users

    By default, a user account is considered to be dormant if it has not been active for 90 days. You can configure the length of time a user must be inactive to be considered dormant and choose to suspend dormant users to release user licenses.

  • Suspending and unsuspending users

    If a user leaves or moves to a different part of the company, you should remove or modify their ability to access your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.

  • Placing a legal hold on a user or organization

    You can place a legal hold on a user or organization to ensure that repositories they own cannot be permanently removed from your enterprise.

  • Auditing SSH keys

    Site administrators can initiate an instance-wide audit of SSH keys.

  • Customizing user messages for your enterprise

    You can create custom messages that users will see on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.

  • Rebuilding contributions data

    You may need to rebuild contributions data to link existing commits to a user account.