# Provisioning

The GitHub connector supports provisioning, allowing you to create and manage accounts and entitlements in GitHub directly from SailPoint.

**Prerequisite:** Your system is configured for provisioning.

When SailPoint provisions new accounts to the source, it uses the attributes on the **Create Account** page as instructions or a template for what to include in the account. This page is also referred to as the *provisioning policy*.

When new access is granted on a source where a user does not already have an account, SailPoint automatically includes account creation in the provisioning. This applies whether provisioning is started from an access request or from an automated role or lifecycle state assignment.

For direct-connect sources, SailPoint automatically creates the account from this configuration. If the source is not configured as a direct-connect source, SailPoint creates and assigns a provisioning task to the source owner and includes the values for the source owner to use in manually creating the account.

> [!IMPORTANT]
>
> This section describes the default **Create Account** configuration. SailPoint recommends that you work with Services to define a provisioning configuration specific to your company's needs. Be sure to verify large changes to the provisioning policy before implementation. Failure to do so might cause provisioning to fail.

## Default Create Account Attributes

| Account Attribute | Description |
| --- | --- |
| email | The email of the user. |
| role | The role of the member in an organization. |

> [!NOTE]
>
> - The **Role** is `default_member` by default. If you want to assign another value, `admin` and `billing manager` are additional values that you may use.
> - An account must be created in GitHub by the end-user, and then the admin can invite the end-user to join an Organization. After the account is created, an invitation will be sent to the specified email address of the end-user. Once the invitation has been accepted, account aggregation must be performed on the source to correlate the identities.