Manage users

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Managing users and user access is an essential part of maintaining your Tailscale network (known as a tailnet).

Invite users to your tailnet

There are different ways that you can invite users to join your tailnet.


Explore the different ways to invite users to your Tailscale network.

Send and manage invitations for your Tailscale network.

Manage user access

Control how users are approved to join your tailnet, what access they have to the Tailscale admin console, and when they are removed from your tailnet.


Review and approve new users before they can join your Tailscale network.

Use roles for restricting access to the admin console.

Delete and suspend users.

Explore idle session timeout in the Tailscale admin console.

Switch the active user in the Tailscale client

Use fast user switching to quickly switch between two or more logged-in accounts on the same device, without requiring you to re-authenticate.

Quickly switch between two or more logged in accounts on the same device, without requiring re-authentication.