Inviting people to manage your enterprise

About administrator management

If you do not use Enterprise Managed Users, you can add or remove enterprise owners and billing managers in your enterprise. For more information about the privileges that come with each enterprise role, see Abilities of roles in an enterprise.

If you do use Enterprise Managed Users, enterprise owners and billing managers can only be added or removed through your identity provider. For more information, see About Enterprise Managed Users.

Inviting an enterprise administrator to your enterprise account

After you invite someone to join the enterprise account, they must accept the emailed invitation before they can access the enterprise account. Pending invitations will expire after 7 days.

You can see all pending invitations to become an administrator of your enterprise account. For more information, see Viewing people in your enterprise.

1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile picture.
2. Depending on your environment, click Enterprise, or click Enterprises then click the enterprise you want to view.
3. At the top of the page, click People.
4. Under " People", click Administrators.
5. Above the list of administrators, click Invite admin.
6. Type the username, full name, or email address of the person you want to invite to become an enterprise administrator, then select the appropriate person from the results.
7. Select Owner or Billing Manager.
8. Click Send Invitation.

Removing an enterprise administrator from your enterprise account

Only enterprise owners can remove other enterprise administrators from the enterprise account.

1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile picture.

2. Depending on your environment, click Enterprise, or click Enterprises then click the enterprise you want to view.

3. At the top of the page, click People.

4. Under " People", click Administrators.

5. Next to the username of the person you'd like to remove, select the dropdown menu.

   

6. Choose one of the following:

   • Remove from enterprise: Removes both the administrative role and all organization memberships.
   • Convert to member: Removes the administrative role but keeps the user’s organization memberships.
   • Change role, and then Unaffiliated member: If the user has no organization memberships, removes the administrative role but keeps the user in the enterprise as an unaffiliated member.

7. Read the confirmation message, then confirm.

Further reading

• Managing membership in your organization
• Managing people's access to your organization with roles