I need to transfer a repository from a user account to an organization the user is a member of. Per GitHUb's docs, I need to make the user account an admin of the organization first.
GitHub's docs describe the different levels of access to an organization, but I can't find out how to actually change a user's level of access to an organisation.
How can I make the organization member an admin?
Access levels in GitHub are configured per Team inside the Organization.
Log into GitHub.
Switch your account context to the organization using the dropdown near the top-left of the screen:
Click on "View organization":
Click the Teams tab in the top navigation bar:
Decide whether you want to change the permissions of an existing team (and all of its members) or to create a new team for a single user.
If you are modifying an existing Team,
click on the Team name,
then click the gear icon at the top right,
then change the Team's access to Admin and
click Update.
If you are creating a new Team,
click the New Team button,
give the Team an appropriate name,
set its access to Admin and
click Create Team.
Team memberships have somewhat limited permissions scopes to individually named repositories.
If you want to set someone as an admin for the entire organization:
Navigate to the Organization > People
Identify the member you want to update and click on the settings cog
Set role to Owner
Update 2022: GitHub entitlements can help you define an IAM (Identity and Access Management) complete with audits.
2017: Note that since June 2017, you can apply an Admin access right to a sub-team (instead of one giant unique team as before)
See "Nested teams add depth to your team structure":
Child teams inherit their parent's access permissions, so repository permissions and #mentioning among nested teams work from top to bottom.
If your team structure is Employees > Engineering > Application Engineering > Identity, granting Engineering write access to a repository means Application Engineering and Identity also get that access.
So that is another way to assign a user admin right: make him/her part of a sub-sub team called "admins" within an organization.
Official GitHub Documentation: Nested Teams.
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In my Azure boards, I have a hierarchical structure of the areas. In the team settings, all teams have areas being set, just like described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/plans/safe-configure-boards?view=azure-devops#configure-area-paths
Is there a way for one team to see only the area it is set to, but no other areas? Currently, in Boards>Work items any member of any team can see everything, even User stories that do not belong to his area. How can I restrict this?
Edit: it might be from Security options of an area, add a group to it and make work items invisible, see this screenshot from Azure documentation.
But, even as an admin, I don't have such option to add! Why is that?
The UI has changed. There is no add option in the security settings page now.
You can directly search for the Team Group in the Search box and change its permission settings. See below screenshot.
Okay, in addition to Levi's answer:
First, every new user added to a project is also added by default to one of this project's groups: Contributors, Readers, Admins. I'm not considering admins here.
If we want to make one area visible to only one team, we need to do the following:
Either modify Contributors or Readers rights so that the "View project-level information" is set to Deny, and then for each new user, add it to a team and for that team set this option to Allow for the area needed
or (better)
Create our own groups for which "View project-level information" is set to Deny (for ex. Developers, QAs, etc.), and then for each new user, remove it from Contributors or Readers and add it to the corresponding group. Then add the user to a team, and for that team set the "View project-level information" option to Allow for the area needed
I want to set up a portfolio where all projects names will be my epics and every individual project will have their own space where they will manage thier pbis..now my question is how can I control the user access in my parent space ..like what access and roles I should give to each pm in the parent epic spac
For each project that you create, the system creates the followings project-level groups. These groups are assigned project-level permissions.
The full name of each of these groups is [{project name}]{group name}. For example, the contributors group for a project called "My Project" is [My Project]\Contributors.
For your PM, they should be assigned Project Administrators permission.
Project Administrators
Has permissions to administer all aspects of teams and project,
although they can't create team projects.
Assign to users who manage user permissions, create or edit teams,
modify team settings, define area an iteration path, or customize work
item tracking.
Members of the Project Administrators group are granted permissions to perform the following tasks:
Add and remove users from project membership
Add and remove custom security groups from a project
Add and administer all project teams and team-related features
Edit project level permission ACLs
Edit event subscriptions (email or SOAP) for teams or project-level
events.
As for Access levels, it grant or restrict access to select web portal features. Access levels enable administrators to provide their user base access to the features they need and only pay for those features. They should as least owe Basic access level.
For more detail info, please refer our official doc here:
Project-level permissions
About access levels
I am trying to understand the complete purpose of organisations in ADO. What I have understood is that an organisation groups projects, defines resources, extensions, billing, etc. that is related to the organization.
I am struggling with the user part of an organization. I can add users to an org giving them an access level. But I can also add users directly to a project without adding them to an organization at all.
What is then the consequence of this? Is then access level by default stakeholder for those users?
Thank you
You can add people to projects instead of to your organization. Users
are automatically assigned Basic features if your organization has
seats available, or Stakeholder features if not.
For this please refer to the Note of this document.
When you add members to projects and you don't have billing set up, Basic access is automatically assigned, until you run out of seats available. When you add members to projects and you do have billing set up, Basic access is assigned only if your default access level is set to Basic. Otherwise, project members are assigned Stakeholder permissions.
You can refer to Add members to projects or teams for details.
If you add an user to a project that user will be added to the organisation as well. At least when the said user first logs in. The user will get the access level you define as default.
Is it possible to customize columns in Azure DevOps --> Organization Settings --> Users page. Currently we have Name, Extensions, Access Level, Last Access. I need to add another column to show whether the user have code read-only access or contributor access.
This page can't be customized as fas as i know. What you want can't be displayed on that site if you have more then one project anyway. If you want to see this organizationwide a better way would be to organize the users in "Organization settings -> Permissions" in groups for readers and contributors
I am an admin to a lot many projects. I have permissions to add members to any particular Project. But if I would like to promote a member as a Project Admin, I would like him to have permissions to add new members to the project.
I have added this person as a member of Project Administrator. Though he can now see the + symbol to add a member in Dashboard, it says he doesn't have permissions to add a member. What am I missing?
Seems you are talking about the team member dashboard to add member to the default team.
First double confirm you have promoted the member as a Project Admin
correctly, you could refer this question:
Manage user project permissions
Check the user is adding to VSTS for the first time or not. If it's,
need add account users for VSTS first. For this, the member will
need VSTS project collection administrator or account owner
permissions. However he is just a project admin, this maybe why he doesn't have permission.
Besides you could also add/manager members of other team, choose the gear cog
and Security from the menu. Then find the team on the left pane
of the security page and select it. In the right pane, choose the
Members view (next to Permissions), and then you will see a green plus symbol and the Add... button.
More details please refer this tutorial--Add team project members in VSTS