I am using a number of AI agents in my lab and I'd like to give one of them restricted access to Unraid for resource checks.

It has an account in the GUI but can't authenticate using SSH.

I found this post from some years ago with the last update in 2025. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/59665-add-ssh-user/

Is there still no native way to allow SSH to a restricted account?

I should make it clear this is all INTERNAL on my Lab network and my Unraid server is not exposed externally in anyway.

Edited June 21Jun 21 by sailingbikeruk
added missing URL to old post

27 minutes ago, sailingbikeruk said:

Is there still no native way to allow SSH to a restricted account?

Note as far as I know, only root has SSH access.

In today's "least privilege" world that's pretty shocking ... It might even be a deal breaker.

You can use the openssh docker and setup your users and access there.

On 6/21/2026 at 4:08 AM, sailingbikeruk said:

I am using a number of AI agents in my lab and I'd like to give one of them restricted access to Unraid for resource checks.

It has an account in the GUI but can't authenticate using SSH.

I found this post from some years ago with the last update in 2025. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/59665-add-ssh-user/

Is there still no native way to allow SSH to a restricted account?

I should make it clear this is all INTERNAL on my Lab network and my Unraid server is not exposed externally in anyway.

Did you get anywhere with this? What did you end up doing?

4 hours ago, manderso said:

Did you get anywhere with this? What did you end up doing?

Not OP, but if you want to accomplish the same thing, i.e. giving restricted access to AI agents for monitoring, the best way to accomplish that is polling the API. You would create a new key which you can scope however you want and use separate keys so you can differentiate agent's activity in logs. If you want SSH access for agents, with Unraid that will be root.