A user account is considered to be dormant if it has not been active for at least a month. You may choose to suspend dormant users to free up license seats.
"Activity" includes, but is not limited to:
- Signing in to GitHub Enterprise.
- Commenting on issues and pull requests.
- Creating, deleting, watching, and starring repositories.
- Pushing commits.
Determining whether a user account is dormant
As a site admin, sign in to your GitHub Enterprise instance at
http(s)://[hostname]/login.
In the upper-right corner of any page, click .
In the search field, type the name of the user and click Search.
A red dot and the word "Dormant" in the upper-right corner of the page indicates the user account is dormant:
A green dot and the word "Active" in the upper-right corner of the page indicates the user account is active:
Viewing dormant users
You can view a list of all dormant users who have not been suspended and who are not site administrators.
As a site admin, sign in to your GitHub Enterprise instance at
http(s)://[hostname]/login.- In the upper-right corner of any page, click .
In the left sidebar, click Dormant users.
To suspend all the dormant users in this list, at the top of the page, click Suspend all.
