Maintaining ownership continuity for your organization

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 "Permission levels for an organization."

Appointing an organization owner

1. In the top right corner of GitHub Enterprise, click your profile photo, then click Your profile.
   
2. On the left side of your profile page, under "Organizations", click the icon for your organization.
   
3. Under your organization name, click People.
   
4. Select the person or people you'd like to promote to owner.
   
5. Above the list of members, use the drop-down menu and click Change role.
   
6. Select a new role for the person or people, then click Change role.