Managing people's access to your organization with roles

Organization owners can assign roles to individuals and teams giving them different sets of permissions in the organization.

Learn how to view organization role permissions and manage organization role assignments.

You can control access to your organization's settings and repositories with custom organization roles.

You can create, edit, and assign custom organization roles in an organization's settings.

Organizations can have more than one organization owner to avoid lapses in ownership.

You can give your security team the least access they need to configure and monitor code security for your organization by assigning a team to the security manager role.