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Removing users from teams and organizations

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If a member of your organization no longer requires access to certain repositories, you can remove them from the team that allows that access. If a member of your organization no longer requires access to any repositories owned by the organization, you can remove them from the organization.

Only owners or team admins can remove organization members. When a user is removed from a team or organization, their issues, pull requests, and comments in the organization's repositories remain intact and are still attributed to the user.

Warning: When you remove a user from an organization, they will lose access to any private forks they have of your organization's private repositories. They may still have local copies of those forks. However, they will be unable to sync them with your organization's repositories. You are responsible for ensuring that people who have lost access to a repository delete any confidential information or intellectual property. If the user removed from your organization was an organization member, their access to private forks of organization repositories can be restored if the user is reinstated as an organization member within three months of being removed from an organization.

Removing a team member

  1. In the top right corner of GitHub AE, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu under @octocat's profile picture. "Your organizations" is outlined in dark orange.

  2. Click the name of your organization. Organization name in list of organizations

  3. Under your organization name, click Teams.

    Teams tab

  4. Click the name of the team.

  5. Select the person or people you'd like to remove.

    Screenshot of the first user in a list of team members. To the left of the user, a checkbox is checked and outlined in dark orange.

  6. Above the list of team members, select the X members selected dropdown menu and click Remove from team.

    Screenshot of a team's "Members" page. Above the list of team members, a dropdown menu, labeled "2 members selected", is outlined in dark orange.

Removing a user from an organization

  1. In the top right corner of GitHub AE, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu under @octocat's profile picture. "Your organizations" is outlined in dark orange.

  2. Click the name of your organization. Organization name in list of organizations

  3. Under your organization name, click People.

    The People tab

  4. Next to the name of the users you want to remove from the organization, click the check box. Remove user checkbox

  5. At the top of the page, under the organization name, click Remove from organization. Remove from organization button

Note: When you remove a user from your organization, their membership data is saved for three months. You can restore their data, or any private forks they owned of your organization's repositories, if you invite the user to rejoin the organization within that time frame. For more information, see "Reinstating a former member of your organization."