Custom Role With Permission to manager repository Secrets and Variables without Admin Access

[blemke1971]

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I have an organization and I want to grant users the right to manage their own Repository Level Action Secrets, Environments and Variables but I DO NOT want to grant them Admin access.

It would be helpful if we could create a custom organization role that grants access to repository level secrets or a repository role that grants the same without allowing them full Admin access to all other repository settings.

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[ojintoad]

@blemke1971 Technically isn't this doable with gh cli or api given write permissions? They just can't do it in the UI, which is probably what you mean.

https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/managing-user-access-to-your-organizations-repositories/managing-repository-roles/repository-roles-for-an-organization#permissions-for-each-role

This has proven to work as a workaround at my org, and also has the benefit of getting folks to record their actions as scripted out command line calls rather than UI screenshots.

https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_variable
https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_secret

[blemke1971]

Correct. Right now its just trying to give them access to modify in the UI. I have started looking to create helper actions\scripts that would let folks change these but have not gotten to far yet.

[woeterman94]

What you are showing is for action secrets. Not for environment secrets?

[woeterman94]

Also a fan of this. There is no way to let users update or manage environment secrets without giving them full access to manage the environments. A custom role would be great.