Welcome to the GitHub Enterprise User Management Guide. Use this guide to:

• Decide on and implement an authentication method for users signing in to your GitHub Enterprise instance.
• Create and manage organizations and teams within your GitHub Enterprise instance for repository access and collaboration.
• Review best practices for ensuring your GitHub Enterprise users are keeping themselves and their data as safe and secure as possible.

GitHub Enterprise is distributed as a virtual machine image that you install and manage within your existing infrastructure. For more information on installing and configuring the GitHub Enterprise appliance, see the GitHub Enterprise Setup and Configuration Guide.

Table of Contents

• Authenticating users for your GitHub Enterprise instance
  • Using CAS
  • Using SAML
  • Using LDAP
  • Using built-in authentication
  • Changing authentication methods
  • Disabling unauthenticated sign-ups
• Basic account settings
  • Promoting or demoting a site administrator
  • Configuring email for notifications
• Organizations and teams
  • Creating organizations
  • Creating teams
  • Adding people to teams
  • Removing users from teams and organizations
  • Preventing users from creating organizations
• User security
  • Best practices for user security
  • Managing dormant users
  • Auditing users across your instance
  • Suspending and unsuspending users