GH-100 GitHub Administration Questions and Answers

To communicate corporate security and compliance policies for end users on a private repository.

To provide information on an open source repository for open source collaborators and researchers that may need to report and disclose sensitive security findings to maintainers securely.

To prevent anyone from pushing to the repository without approval.

To define which open source packages are permitted for use as part of that repository.

ssh -p 122 adming@ghe.avocado.corp -- 'ghe-support-bundle -o' > support-bundle.tgz

ssh -p 122 adming@ghe.avocado.corp – 'ghe-diagnostics' > support-bundle.tgz

curl -u admin https://ghe.avocado.corp/diagnostics/support-bundle.tgz -o

ssh -p 122 adming@ghe.avocado.corp -- 'ghe-config generate-support-bundle' > support-bundle.tgz

Group SCIM requires less initial configuration than Team Sync.

Team Sync supports more identity providers than Group SCIM.

Team Syncprovides more automated user deprovisioningthan Group SCIM.

Group SCIM enablescentralized user and group management through the IdP.

Modifying organization-wide settings.

Managing nested sub-teams.

Adding or removing team members.

Deleting repositories assigned to the team.

Use GitHub's meta API to configure access.

Add a label to the runner group.

Configure repository access in the runner group settings.

Configure the Actions Policies to "Only selected repositories".

writing scripts.

installing GitHub Enterprise Server.

setting up hardware.

integrating with third-party applications.

Suits environments where all users need write access.

Improves collaboration by allowing users to modify content directly.

Increases efficiency in content creation and updates.

Enhances security by minimizing unintended modifications.

Repository Insights

Dependency Graph

Security Policy

CodeQL

The token's permissions and the geographic region of access

The token expiration date

The GitHub Actions runner name

The token ID, requesting IP address, and associated user

It alerts the service provider (e.g., AWS, Stripe).

It immediately blocks the commit to protect the secret.

It deletes the secret from the repository automatically.

It notifies the admin via webhook.

GitHub-hosted larger runners with Azure private networking

GitHub-hosted standard runners, using the IP addresses provided in "actions" from https://api.github.com/meta

GitHub-hosted standard runners, using the IP addresses provided in "api" from https://api.github.com/meta

GitHub-hosted larger runners with static IP addresses

SCIM synchronizes changes to user attributes from the identity provider to GitHub.

SCIM deactivates GitHub accounts when users are deleted from the identity provider.

SCIM automatically deletes organization repositories when administrators are removed.

SCIM automates user provisioning when new users are added to the identity provider.

SCIM generates authentication tokens for accessing GitHub's REST API.

SCIM configures repository permissions based on user roles within the organization.

license renewal

hardware setup issues or errors

business impact from security issues within your organization

outages on GitHub.com affecting core Git functionality

Approval from GitHub Support

A custom GitHub Action in the root repo

Administrator SSH access to the appliance

A GitHub App with read:org permissions

Fine-grained PATs automatically renew while classic PATs require manual renewal.

Fine-grained PATs permissions can be scoped to specific repositories.

Classic PATs offer more permission controls than fine-grained PATs.

Classic PATs can be restricted to specific organizations, but fine-grained PATs cannot.

It configures scheduling, package ecosystems, and target directories for update checks.

It lists commit SHAs to exclude from automatic pull requests.

It enables GitHub to scan for secrets in dependency files.

It encrypts dependency versions before storing them in the repo.