GitHub User Account

A GitHub User Account is a web-service account (a GitHub user) on the GitHub service.

• Context:
  • It can be a GitHub Repository Owner (or a GitHub repository).
  • It can be a GitHub Repository Collaborator (or a GitHub repository).
• Example(s):
  • https://github.com/gmelli
  • https://github.com/rfletcher
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a GitHub Organization.
  • an AWS IAM User.
• See: GitHub.

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References

2012

• https://help.github.com/articles/what-are-the-different-access-permissions
  • User accounts only have two permission levels, the account owner and collaborators.
    • Owner: This user has full control of the account and the private repositories directly owned by the account. There is only one owner of a user account's repositories, this cannot be shared with another user.
    • Collaborator: Has push/pull access to the repositories they have been granted collaborator access. See the "Write Access Teams" and "Read Access Teams" permissions below for more details.

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