GitHub is making it easier to manage all your company's accounts

Date:
Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:30:56 +0000

Description:
New user account type gives better control and oversight over employee developer accounts.

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GitHub has launched a new type of user account designed to bring
centralized, granular control to the platforms enterprise users.

Enterprise Managed Users (EMUs) are a new type of user account for GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) customers that are provisioned and managed centrally with the help of the customers existing identity provider (IdP).

First announced in private beta last year, EMUs are designed to give admins granular control over GitHub accounts across the company, and currently works only with identity services from Microsofts AzureAD and Okta . Heres our roundup of the best laptops for programming Take a look at these best laptops for business We've built a list of the best workstations on the market

Enterprises using EMUs can create user accounts for their employees via a linked IdP. Administrators are also able to manage user profile data (e.g. display name, email address, etc.) and membership to GitHub teams through their IdP, the company explained. Move to the cloud

Reporting on the announcement, VentureBeat notes that before EMUs, GHEC customers could invite external developers into company groups using their existing individual accounts, over which they had little control.

With EMUs, companies can now create user accounts using their existing IdP. From a security point of view, EMUs give better control to corporate customers, especially since EMU accounts can only be used to work on repositories that belong to the company.

VentureBeat argues that the move towards EMUs ties into GitHubs larger push to transition software development towards the cloud, given as it comes on
the heels of the launch of its browser-based Codespaces development environment . Need something more portable? Check out the best mobile workstations

Via VentureBeat



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