Managing access to your projects

About project access

Admins of organization-level projects can manage access for the entire organization, for teams, for individual organization members, and for outside collaborators.

Admins of user-level projects can invite individual collaborators and manage their access.

Project admins can also control the visibility of their project for everyone on the internet. For more information, see Managing visibility of your projects.

Managing access for organization-level projects

You can control access to your project by setting permissions for particular individuals and teams or you can set a base permission that applies to everyone in your organization.

Managing access for everyone in your organization

You can manage access for everyone in your organization to a particular project by changing the project's base permission. Changes to the base permission only affect organization members who are not organization owners and who are not granted individual access.

You can also configure the default base permission at the organization-level for new projects and projects that haven't yet had a base permission configured. For more information about setting your organization's base permission for projects, see Managing base permissions for projects.

1. Navigate to your project.

2. In the top-right, click to open the menu.

   

3. In the menu, click Settings to access the project settings.

4. Click Manage access.

5. Under Base role, select the default role.

   
   • No access: Only organization owners and users granted individual access can see the project. Organization owners are also admins for the project.
   • Read: Everyone in the organization can see the project. Organization owners are also admins for the project.
   • Write: Everyone in the organization can see and edit the project. Organization owners are also admins for the project.
   • Admin: Everyone in the organization is an admin for the project.

Managing access for teams and individual members of your organization

You can also add teams, external collaborators, and individual organization members as collaborators for an organization-level project. For more information, see About teams.

If you grant a team read permissions or greater for a project, the project is also displayed on the team's projects page. You can also add projects to a team on the team's projects page. For more information, see Adding your project to a team.

You can only invite an individual user to collaborate on your organization-level project if they are already a member of the organization or an outside collaborator on at least one repository in the organization.

1. Navigate to your project.

2. In the top-right, click to open the menu.

   

3. In the menu, click Settings to access the project settings.

4. Click Manage access.

5. Under Invite collaborators, search for the team or individual user that you want to invite.

   

6. Select the role for the collaborator.

   • Read: The team or individual can view the project.
   • Write: The team or individual can view and edit the project.
   • Admin: The team or individual can view, edit, and add new collaborators to the project.

7. Click Invite.

Managing access of an existing collaborator on your project

1. Navigate to your project.

2. In the top-right, click to open the menu.

   

3. In the menu, click Settings to access the project settings.

4. Click Manage access.

5. Under Manage access, find the collaborator(s) whose permissions you want to modify.

   You can use the Type and Role drop-down menus to filter the access list.

   

6. Edit the role for the collaborator(s).

7. Optionally, click Remove to remove the collaborator(s).

Managing access for user-level projects

Granting a collaborator access to your project

1. Navigate to your project.

2. In the top-right, click to open the menu.

   

3. In the menu, click Settings to access the project settings.

4. Click Manage access.

5. Under Invite collaborators, search for the user that you want to invite.

   

6. Select the role for the collaborator.

   • Read: The individual can view the project.
   • Write: The individual can view and edit the project.
   • Admin: The individual can view, edit, and add new collaborators to the project.

7. Click Invite.

Managing access of an existing collaborator on your project

1. Navigate to your project.

2. In the top-right, click to open the menu.

   

3. In the menu, click Settings to access the project settings.

4. Click Manage access.

5. Under Manage access, find the collaborator(s) whose permissions you want to modify.

   You can use the Type and Role drop-down menus to filter the access list.

   

6. Edit the role for the collaborator(s).

7. Optionally, click Remove to remove the collaborator(s).