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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.

Enterprise owners can add additional enterprise administrators.

Enterprise accounts are available with GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see "About enterprise accounts."

About users who can manage your enterprise account

Enterprise owners can see all of the members and outside collaborators for every organization owned by the enterprise. For more information, see "Roles in an enterprise."

If you want to manage owners and billing managers for an enterprise account on GitHub.com, see "Inviting people to manage your enterprise" in the GitHub Enterprise Cloud documentation.

Tip: For more information on managing users within an organization owned by your enterprise account, see "Managing membership in your organization" and "Managing people's access to your organization with roles."

Adding an enterprise administrator to your enterprise account

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Enterprise settings. "Enterprise settings" in drop-down menu for profile photo on GitHub Enterprise Server

  2. In the enterprise account sidebar, click People. People tab in the enterprise account sidebar

  3. In the left sidebar, click Administrators. Administrators tab in the left sidebar

  4. Above the list of administrators, click Add owner.

    "Add owner" button above the list of enterprise owners

  5. 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. Modal box with field to type a person's username, full name, or email address, and Invite button

  6. Click Add. "Add" button

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 Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Enterprise settings. "Enterprise settings" in drop-down menu for profile photo on GitHub Enterprise Server

  2. In the enterprise account sidebar, click People. People tab in the enterprise account sidebar

  3. Next to the username of the person you'd like to remove, click , then click Remove owner.

    Settings gear with menu option to remove an enterprise administrator

  4. Read the confirmation, then click Remove owner.