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I was once told explicitly by GitHub Support (just as a reminder) that one person having multiple accounts is against their TOS, so there’s that. (This was year

by oefrha 7y ago

I was once told explicitly by GitHub Support (just as a reminder) that one person having multiple accounts is against their TOS, so there’s that. (This was years ago, not sure if TOS has changed in this aspect.)

achamayou 7y ago
The same person creating separate accounts for automation is explicitly permitted however: https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/types-of-github-accounts#personal-user-accounts https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu...
chrisweekly 7y ago
wat Never heard such a restriction even mentioned, let alone enforced.
- oefrha 7y ago
  Well you just heard. At least they say “we do not recommend creating more than one account” at the moment. https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/types-of-github-accounts#personal-user-accounts https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu... Enforced — of course not (guess why I was told), but it stands to reason that they probably won’t add a feature to facilitate TOS violation.
  - noncoml 7y ago
    GitHub is not what it used to be when this "restriction" was made. These days, where a lot of companies decide to go with github, it's not uncommon for people to have one personal account and one work account. This becomes messy to manage, as it's not easy(as far as I know) to use the same account on your personal PC to do both personal and work work.
jakear 7y ago
I was told by GitHub Support less than a month ago that in order for Actions to trigger other Actions I'd need to make a new separate account with repo access and have them act using its PAT.
smitop 7y ago
Their Terms of Service (https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...) say: One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that's fine, but it can only be used for running a machine).
noncoml 7y ago
I have one free personal account and a paid account for work. So I don’t think it’s against their TOS

by oefrha 7y ago

achamayou 7y ago

The same person creating separate accounts for automation is explicitly permitted however: https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/types-of-github-accounts#personal-user-accounts https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu...

chrisweekly 7y ago

wat Never heard such a restriction even mentioned, let alone enforced.

oefrha 7y ago
Well you just heard. At least they say “we do not recommend creating more than one account” at the moment. https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/types-of-github-accounts#personal-user-accounts https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu... Enforced — of course not (guess why I was told), but it stands to reason that they probably won’t add a feature to facilitate TOS violation.
- noncoml 7y ago
  GitHub is not what it used to be when this "restriction" was made. These days, where a lot of companies decide to go with github, it's not uncommon for people to have one personal account and one work account. This becomes messy to manage, as it's not easy(as far as I know) to use the same account on your personal PC to do both personal and work work.

jakear 7y ago

I was told by GitHub Support less than a month ago that in order for Actions to trigger other Actions I'd need to make a new separate account with repo access and have them act using its PAT.

smitop 7y ago

Their Terms of Service (https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...) say: One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that's fine, but it can only be used for running a machine).

noncoml 7y ago

I have one free personal account and a paid account for work. So I don’t think it’s against their TOS