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Managing the display of member names in your organization

You can allow members of your organization to see a comment author's profile name in private repositories in the organization.

Allowing members to see comment authors' profile names is available with GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Server 2.18+, and GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see "GitHub's products."

Organization owners can manage the display of member names in an organization.

Commenter's profile name displayed in comment

Changes to the display of usernames within an organization will affect the display of other people's usernames, not your own. Each organization member chooses their own profile name in their settings. For more information, see "Personalizing your profile."

  1. In the top right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations. Your organizations in the profile menu

  2. Next to the organization, click Settings. The settings button

  3. In the left sidebar, click Member privileges. Member privileges option in org settings

  4. Under "Admin repository permissions", select or unselect Allow members to see comment author's profile name in private repositories. Checkbox to allow members to see comment author's full name in private repositories

  5. Click Save.