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Managing users, organizations, and repositories
This guide describes authentication methods for users signing in to your GitHub Enterprise instance, how to create organizations and teams for repository access and collaboration, and suggested best practices for user security.
Table of Contents
- Managing users in your enterprise
- Promoting or demoting a site administrator
- Best practices for user security
- Auditing users across your instance
- Managing dormant users
- Suspending and unsuspending users
- Placing a legal hold on a user or organization
- Auditing SSH keys
- Customizing user messages on your instance
- Configuring email for notifications
- Rebuilding contributions data
- Managing global webhooks
- Managing organizations in your enterprise
- Creating organizations
- Configuring visibility for organization membership
- Preventing users from creating organizations
- Requiring two-factor authentication for an organization
- Creating teams
- Adding people to teams
- Removing users from teams and organizations
- Managing projects using JIRA
- Continuous integration using Jenkins
- Managing repositories in your enterprise
- Monitoring activity in your enterprise
- Migrating data to and from your enterprise