How to make Organization Based GitHub Tokens?

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Why am I only allowed to create personal tokens....? This seems to be a huge flaw in their system... Is there any way to create an organizational based token, so if specific actors of the company come-and-go we don't need to constantly create new tokens & potentially have production pipelines stop working?

On the inverse... creating a personal token that needs access to FULL private repo's to work on behalf of the organization is a huge flaw in personal IP... This seems ridiculous so it can't be the truth... please help!

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It's not possible to create a token directly at the organization level (yet?).

However, you can create a separate github account, and add it to the organization owners team.

Then, you can get and use this account personnal access token as you wish inside the organization (it will be like an organization exclusive account).

Note that if you do it this way, the token will also have admin access to this specific account repositories, but that may be not be a problem here. But be careful to not add this account to another organization as well, otherwise using the PAT will allow access to both organizations.

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