About maintaining ownership continuity for your organization
Projects maintained and managed by one sole organization owner can easily become inaccessible if the organization owner is unreachable. We recommend an organization have at least two people with owner permissions to ensure no one will lose access to a project.
Organization owners have full administrative access to the organization. For more information, see "Roles in an organization."
Note: As an organization owner, you can change the role of other organization members and owners. You can't change your own role.
If your organization is owned by an enterprise account, any enterprise owner can make themself an owner of your organization. For more information, see "Managing your role in an organization owned by your enterprise."
Appointing an organization owner
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In the top right corner of GitHub.com, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations.
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Click the name of your organization.
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Under your organization name, click People.
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Select the person or people you'd like to promote to owner.
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Above the list of members, use the drop-down menu and click Change role.
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Select a new role for the person or people, then click Change role.
