diff --git a/roles/common/templates/sshd_config_Debian-11.j2 b/roles/common/templates/sshd_config_Debian-11.j2
index aef9d93..81153ab 100644
--- a/roles/common/templates/sshd_config_Debian-11.j2
+++ b/roles/common/templates/sshd_config_Debian-11.j2
@@ -134,5 +134,10 @@ MACs hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com
 KexAlgorithms curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256
 Ciphers chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-ctr
 
-# only allow shell access by provisioning user
-AllowUsers {{ provisioning_user.name }}
+{% if ssh_allowed_users is defined and ssh_allowed_users %}
+# Is there a list of allowed users?
+# Is it populated? (An empty list is 'None', which evaluates as False in Python)
+# merge the items of a list into one string using a space as a separator
+# http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#join
+AllowUsers {{ ssh_allowed_users|join(" ") }} {{ provisioning_user.name }}
+{% endif %}