Question

At Contoso, an enterprise account contains 12 organizations on GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Priya is an enterprise owner but is NOT a member or owner of the 'payments-team' organization. A developer asks Priya to directly add a specific outside collaborator to a private repository inside the 'payments-team' organization. Without changing her own membership, what can Priya do based on the GitHub authorization model?

Accepted Answer

She cannot manage repository-level access in that organization until she joins it as a member or is made an organization owner; enterprise owners manage policies, not individual repo collaborators by default.

Answer

As an enterprise owner she automatically has owner permissions on every organization, so she can add the collaborator to the repository directly right now.

Answer

She must first convert the repository to internal visibility, after which enterprise owners gain the ability to add collaborators enterprise-wide.

Answer

She can add the collaborator only by creating an enterprise team and assigning it to the repository, because enterprise teams override organization membership.