When you boot a GitHub instance for the first time, you can use the following endpoint to upload a license.

Note that you need to POST to /setup/api/configure to start the actual configuration process.

When using this endpoint, your GitHub instance must have a password set. This can be accomplished two ways:

1. If you’re working directly with the API before accessing the web interface, you must pass in the password parameter to set your password.
2. If you set up your instance via the web interface before accessing the API, your calls to this endpoint do not need the password parameter.

Note: The request body for this operation must be submitted as application/x-www-form-urlencoded data. You can submit a parameter value as a string, or you can use a tool such as curl to submit a parameter value as the contents of a text file. For more information, see the curl documentation.

This API upgrades your license and also triggers the configuration process.

Note: The request body for this operation must be submitted as application/x-www-form-urlencoded data. You can submit a parameter value as a string, or you can use a tool such as curl to submit a parameter value as the contents of a text file. For more information, see the curl documentation.

Note that you’ll need to set Content-Length to zero when calling out to this endpoint. For more information, see “HTTP verbs.”

You can demote any user account except your own.

If your GitHub instance uses LDAP Sync with Active Directory LDAP servers, Active Directory LDAP-authenticated users cannot be suspended through this API. If you attempt to suspend an Active Directory LDAP-authenticated user through this API, it will return a 403 response.

You can suspend any user account except your own.

Note that, if you choose not to pass any parameters, you’ll need to set Content-Length to zero when calling out to this endpoint. For more information, see “HTTP verbs.”