Headless Authentication

Headless user accounts that cannot use the web UI to log in to Coder. This is useful for creating accounts for automated systems, such as CI/CD pipelines or for users who only consume Coder via another client/API.

You must have the User Admin role or above to create headless users.

Create a headless user

To make API or CLI requests on behalf of the headless user, learn how to generate API tokens on behalf of a user.