Teams give organizations the ability to create groups of members and control access to repositories.
Teams are central to many of GitHub's collaborative features, such as team @mentions to notify appropriate parties that you'd like to request their input or attention. For more details on how you can use organizations and teams to control repository access, see "Permission levels for an organization repository".
Creating a team
As an organization owner, you can create any number of teams. You can also associate more than one team with any user account or repository. A prudent combination of teams is a powerful way to control repository access. For example, if your organization allows only certain members to push code to the master branch of any repository, you could give only members of that "core" team Push & Pull permissions to your organization's repositories and give all other teams Pull Only permissions.
In the top right corner of any page, click your username.
On the left side of your profile page, under "Organizations", click the icon for your organization.
On the right side of the organization profile page, under Teams, click Create new team.
On the "Create new team" page, type the name for your new team.
Optionally, in the "Description" field, type a description of the team.
Select permission levels for the team.
Click Create team.
Creating teams with LDAP Sync enabled
Instances using LDAP for user authentication can use LDAP Sync to manage a team's members by mapping a team to an LDAP group on your LDAP server by setting the groups Distinguished Name (DN) in the LDAP group field. This automates granting and removing access to repositories based on LDAP Group membership, so normal team member management within your GitHub Enterprise instance is disabled. The mapped team will sync its members in the background and periodically at the interval configured when LDAP Sync was enabled.
Notes:
- LDAP Sync only manages the team's member list. You must manage the team's repositories and permissions from within GitHub Enterprise.
- If an LDAP group mapping to a DN is removed, such as if the LDAP group is deleted, then the synced GitHub Enterprise team is deleted.
Ensure that LDAP Sync is enabled.
In the top right corner of any page, click your username.
On the left side of your profile page, under "Organizations", click the icon for your organization.
On the "Create new team" page, type the name for your new team.
Search for an LDAP group's DN to map the team to. If you don't know the DN, type the LDAP group's name. GitHub Enterprise will search for and autocomplete any matches.
Optionally, in the "Description" field, type a description of the team.
Select permission levels for the team.
Click Create team.
