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Inviting people to manage your enterprise

You can add and remove enterprise owners for your enterprise account.

Who can use this feature?

Enterprise owners can add additional enterprise administrators.

About administrator management

You can add or remove enterprise owners on GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information about the privileges that come with each enterprise role, see "Roles in an enterprise."

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

Adding an enterprise administrator to your enterprise account

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 Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Enterprise settings.

    Screenshot of the drop-down menu that appears when you click the profile photo on GitHub Enterprise Server. The "Enterprise settings" option is highlighted in a dark orange outline.

  2. On the left side of the page, in the enterprise account sidebar, click People.

  3. Under " People", click Administrators.

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

  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.

  6. Click Add.

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.

    Screenshot of the drop-down menu that appears when you click the profile photo on GitHub Enterprise Server. The "Enterprise settings" option is highlighted in a dark orange outline.

  2. On the left side of the page, in the enterprise account sidebar, click People.

  3. Under " People", click Administrators.

  4. Next to the username of the person you'd like to remove, select the dropdown menu, then click Convert to member.

    Screenshot of a user in the enterprise administrators list. A dropdown menu, labeled with a kebab icon, is highlighted with an orange outline.

  5. Read the confirmation, then click Yes, convert USERNAME to member.

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