gh-org-admin-promote

GitHub CLI extension to promote an enterprise admin to an organization admin for all orgs in the enterprise. This is an API-first replacement of ghe-org-admin-promote on GitHub Enterprise Server. It also outputs an inventory of all organizations in the enterprise as a CSV file.

Should work on all supported versions of GitHub Enterprise Server, as well as GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

Permissions check

Important

This requires the admin:enterprise and admin:org scopes, which are only available to enterprise owners and not default for logging in to the gh cli.

Run ghe auth status to check your permissions. You should see admin:enterprise and admin:org in the list of scopes.

$ gh auth status

ghes-test-instance.com
  ✓ Logged in to ghes-test-instance.com account some-natalie (keyring)
  - Active account: true
  - Git operations protocol: https
  - Token: gho_************************************
  - Token scopes: 'admin:enterprise', 'admin:org', 'gist', 'repo', 'workflow'

If you don't, do the following to add the right scopes:

gh auth refresh -s admin:enterprise -s admin:org -h ghes-test-instance.com

Installation

gh extension install some-natalie/gh-org-admin-promote

Usage

$ export GH_HOST=ghes-test-instance.com  # option for GHES, defaults to github.com

$ gh org-admin-promote enterprise-name

Getting total count of organizations in github...
Total count of organizations in github: 4
Getting list of organizations in github...
Promoting user to admin for testorg-00002...
User promoted to admin for testorg-00002
Promoting user to admin for testorg-00003...
User promoted to admin for testorg-00003

Limitations

This will promote you to own all organizations, but it will not capture anything in a user-namespaced repository (e.g. some-natalie/gh-org-admin-promote). If you need reporting on all of these, for GHES, use the all_repositories.csv report to get a list.