Members and roles
Admins can refer to the Members page to manage members and assign roles in your workspace.
Overview
The Members page
The Members page, which can be found by going to Preferences > Administration > Members, shows a list of current and past (suspended members). Here, you can see your members, their email, their roles (Admin, Member, or Guest), when they've joined, and when they were last logged in.
Member roles
Admin
Admin can see an "Administration" section on the sidebar in the Settings, which allows them to manage members, set up log-in restrictions, manage billing, and more.
View your workspace admins
For Members who need to see a list of workspace Admins to get assistance with inviting other members/guests, enable integrations, etc.:
- Open Command menu Cmd/Ctrl K and select View workspace admins
- Click on https://linear.app/settings/view-admins
Member
Members have full access to the workspace and any issues and projects that are not part of private teams they are not in.
Guests
Guests can be invited to join selected team(s) regardless of whether they are private or public teams. They can only access data in the teams they have been invited to join. They can take the same actions as members, but cannot see any workspace-wide features like workspace views or initiatives. Guests can only view the Account section of the settings page.
Shared projects with guests
If you have a shared project between a team in which the Guest is not a member of and a team in which the guest is a member of, the Guest can only see issues that are a part of the team in which they are a member of.
For example: A Guest is a part of team A. Project 1 is shared between Team A and Team B. The Guest can only see issues associated with Team A.
Guests & Integration Security
Integrations that are enabled for the workspace will be accessible to guest users, which means they could access Linear data from teams outside of those they are invited to join through these services.
This includes GitHub, GitLab, Figma, Sentry, Intercom, Zapier, and Airbyte. To avoid this, ensure that guest users do not have access to your accounts on those services. Integrations that require users to authenticate with their email should limit access to only issues and data in invited teams. This includes Slack, Discord, Front, and Zendesk.
The above is applicable to integrations listed and built by the Linear team. For third-party integrations, please review access individually or reach out to the contact listed in the Integrations directory.
Suspend members
To suspend a member from the workspace:
- Go to Settings > Administration > Members
- Click on the three dot menu next to the member's name
- Select Suspend user...
The member will be removed from the workspace and unable to access it unless they are unsuspended. Suspended users will be removed from your next bill, as detailed in our Billing documentation.
There isn't a way to remove or hide suspended members from the member list, but you can filter the list to not show these members. We keep suspended users for historical reasons (they will show up in issues where the user was mentioned or involved) On paid plans, regular members will not see suspended users in the list.
To view issues created by or assigned to suspended users, navigate to the suspended member's profile. You can do this with the direct link linear.app/workspace-name/profiles/username. If you do not know the username, an admin can find the link by clicking on the user's photo or filter for "Suspended" members in the Members page.