[prepend]

This is a frustrating limitation of GitHub’s setup and is hard to find out who people are. As an admin, I can theoretically search the org membership for HugeDick53 and see that it’s associated with [e-mail], b it regular users in the org are at a loss.

We have a loose convention that everyone update their profile with their name. But this is visible publicly, so if an employee doesn’t want their name public they are hosed.

I wish there was an option for an “enterprise” account that would stay hidden to everyone except org members.

But I do applaud GitHub for sticking with the idea that dev identities belong to individuals, not their orgs. So when someone leaves a company they can keep their profile.

I use a single GitHub account with activity for years and link and unlink it to orgs as necessary. Since I also do dev work, I worry that if someone compromises my account or gets a token, they will be able to wreak havoc on multiple orgs and repos where I have access.

[larrybud]

> I wish there was an option for an “enterprise” account that would stay hidden to everyone except org members

There is: Take a look at Enterprise Managed Users https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/ide...

[xmodem]

We used to use terraform to invite people to our github org, along with a file in a repo to map company emails to github usernames. When a new starter joins, their manager submits a PR to add their username.

It was a huge mess - it would fail to apply if you looked at it funny, and it had no controls against someone typo-ing a username and inviting a random person to the org. But it solved this case at least.