About dormant users
A user is considered active if the user has performed any of the following activities on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
- Signing into your GitHub Enterprise Server instance
- Creating a repository
- Pushing to a repository
- Being added to a repository
- Changing the visibility of a repository
- Creating an issue or pull request
- Commenting on an issue or pull request
- Closing or reopening an issue or pull request
- Applying a label to an issue or pull request, or removing a label
- Assigning or unassigning an issue or pull request
- Requesting a review of a pull request, or removing a review request
- Creating or editing a comment in a pull request review
- Dismissing a comment in a pull request
- Synchronizing a pull request
- Commenting on a commit
- Publishing a release
- Pushing to a wiki
- Watching a repository
- Starring a repository
- Deleting a repository
- Joining an organization
A user will also be considered active if their account has been updated by LDAP.
Viewing dormant users
You can view a list of all dormant users who have not been suspended and who are not site administrators.
- From an administrative account on GitHub Enterprise Server, in the upper-right corner of any page, click .
- If you're not already on the "Site admin" page, in the upper-left corner, click Site admin.
- 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.
Determining whether a user account is dormant
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From an administrative account on GitHub Enterprise Server, in the upper-right corner of any page, click .
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If you're not already on the "Site admin" page, in the upper-left corner, click Site admin.
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Under "Search users, organizations, teams, repositories, gists, and applications", type the name of the user in the text field.
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To the right of text field, click Search.
- If an exact account name match isn't found, under "Search results – Accounts", in the "Fuzzy matches" section, click the name of the user you want to manage.
- If an exact account name match isn't found, under "Search results – Accounts", in the "Fuzzy matches" section, click the name of the user you want to manage.
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Review the user details in the site admin page to confirm you have identified the correct user.
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In the User info section, view the status of the user's account. Any users labeled with " Dormant" are dormant, and users labeled with " "Active" are not.
Configuring the dormancy threshold
The dormancy threshold is the length of time a user must be inactive to be considered dormant. The default dormancy threshold is 90 days, however you can customize the dormancy threshold for your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
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In the top-right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Enterprise settings.
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In the enterprise account sidebar, click Policies.
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Under Policies, click Options.
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Under "Dormancy threshold", select the dropdown menu, and click the desired dormancy threshold.
