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Managing access to your organization's repositories

Organization owners can manage individual and team access to the organization's repositories. Team maintainers can also manage a team's repository access.

Repository permission levels for an organization

You can customize access to each repository in your organization with granular permission levels, giving people access to the features and tasks they need.

Managing an individual's access to an organization repository

You can manage a person's access to a repository owned by your organization.

Managing team access to an organization repository

You can give a team access to a repository, remove a team's access to a repository, or change a team's permission level for a repository.

Adding outside collaborators to repositories in your organization

An outside collaborator is a person who isn't explicitly a member of your organization, but who has Read, Write, or Admin permissions to one or more repositories in your organization.

Removing an outside collaborator from an organization repository

Owners and repository admins can remove an outside collaborator's access to a repository.

Converting an organization member to an outside collaborator

If a current member of your organization only needs access to certain repositories, such as consultants or temporary employees, you can convert them to an outside collaborator.

Converting an outside collaborator to an organization member

If you would like to give an outside collaborator on your organization's repositories broader permissions within your organization, you can make them a member of the organization.

Reinstating a former outside collaborator's access to your organization

If you required two-factor authentication in your organization and an outside collaborator was removed from the organization for not having 2FA enabled, you can reinstate a former outside collaborator's access permissions for organization repositories, forks, and settings.

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