Permission levels for an organization
After you create an organization, you should give Owner permissions to a small group of people who will manage the organization account.
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Permission levels for an organization
Organization members can have owner or member roles:
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Owners have complete administrative access to your organization. This role should be limited to a few people in your organization. For more information, see "Changing a person's role to owner."
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Members are the default role for everyone else.
| Organization action | Owners | Members |
|---|---|---|
| Invite people to join the organization | X | |
| Edit and cancel invitations to join the organization | X | |
| Remove members from the organization | X | |
| Reinstate former members to the organization | X | |
| Add and remove people from all teams | X | |
| Promote organization members to team maintainer | X | |
| Add collaborators to all repositories | X | |
| Access the organization audit log | X | |
| Edit the organization's profile page (see "About your organization's profile" for details) | X | |
| Delete all teams | X | |
| Delete the organization account, including all repositories | X | |
| Create teams | X | X |
| See all organization members and teams | X | X |
| @mention any visible team | X | X |
| Can be made a team maintainer | X | X |
| Transfer repositories | X | |
| Create project boards (see "Project board permissions for an organization" for details) | X | X |
| View and post public team discussions to all teams (see "About team discussions" for details) | X | X |
| View and post private team discussions to all teams (see "About team discussions" for details) | X | |
| Edit and delete team discussions in all teams (for more information, see "Managing disruptive comments | X | |
| Hide comments on commits, pull requests, and issues (see "Managing disruptive comments" for details) | X | X |
| Disable team discussions for an organization (see "Disabling team discussions for your organization" for details) | X | |
| Set a team profile picture in all teams (see "Setting your team's profile picture" for details) | X | |
| Move teams in an organization's hierarchy | X | |
| Pull (read), push (write), and clone (copy) all repositories in the organization | X | |
| Convert organization members to outside collaborators | X |
Outside collaborators
To keep your organization data secure while allowing access to repositories, you can add outside collaborators. An outside collaborator is a person who has access to one or more organization repositories but is not explicitly a member of the organization, such as a consultant or temporary employee. For more information, see:
- "Adding outside collaborators to repositories in your organization"
- "Converting an organization member to an outside collaborator"
- "Removing an outside collaborator from an organization repository"