# Pritunl zero ssh - all users?

**URL:** <https://forum.pritunl.com/t/pritunl-zero-ssh-all-users/403>\
**Category:** Pritunl Zero\
**Tags:** pritunl-zero\
**Created:** [September 22, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/pritunl-zero-ssh-all-users/403 "2022-09-22T18:01:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/pritunl-zero-ssh-all-users/403/5 "2023-03-17T18:45:26Z")

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Hi [dskillin](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/dskillin),

We’re evaluating Pritunl Zero, run into same issue. Figured a workaround but it requires clunky sidecar with extraneous access to the database or patching pritunl and we’re not really fond of maintaining our own fork. Sadly that failure to differentiate users feels to be considered a feature not a bug 🙁

We like the system _very_ much, hoping Zach will figure out a better way of dealing with the problem.

> [@Pritunl-zero ssh bastion allows to login as any user?](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/pritunl-zero-ssh-bastion-allows-to-login-as-any-user/868/5):
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> I don’t think there is any option to associate a Linux user with a specific Pritunl Zero user If you see my previous post, please, if we encode username in the certificate or find a way to validate user id with pritunl-zero server, that would work, right?.. I mean I thought of: giving the bastion read only access to mongodb to query for user Id; considered this a really bad idea developing a service real quick that would run along with pritunl-zero query the database and validate accounts…

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