diff --git a/management/internals/shared/grpc/components_encoder.go b/management/internals/shared/grpc/components_encoder.go
index 91e0db4b9..e43e900c6 100644
--- a/management/internals/shared/grpc/components_encoder.go
+++ b/management/internals/shared/grpc/components_encoder.go
@@ -173,10 +173,9 @@ func (e *componentEncoder) appendPeer(p *nmdata.Peer) uint32 {
 	return idx
 }
 
-// indexRouterPeers ensures every router peer is in the peer dedup table
-// (c.RouterPeers may contain peers not in c.Peers when validation rules drop
-// them) and returns their wire indexes for the RouterPeerIndexes field. Must
-// run before any encoder that resolves peer ids via e.peerOrder.
+// indexRouterPeers ensures every router peer is in the peer dedup table and
+// returns their wire indexes for the RouterPeerIndexes field. Must run before
+// any encoder that resolves peer ids via e.peerOrder.
 func (e *componentEncoder) indexRouterPeers(routers map[string]*nmdata.Peer) []uint32 {
 	if len(routers) == 0 {
 		return nil
@@ -333,16 +332,15 @@ func unionPolicies(policies []*nmdata.Policy, resourcePolicies map[string][]*nmd
 }
 
 // encodeAuthorizedGroups translates rule.AuthorizedGroups (map keyed by
-// group xid → local-user names) to the wire form (map keyed by group
-// account_seq_id → UserNameList). Groups without a seq id are dropped —
-// matches how source/destination group references handle the same case.
+// group xid → local-user names) to the wire form (map keyed by
+// authorizedGroupKey → UserNameList).
 func (e *componentEncoder) encodeAuthorizedGroups(m map[string][]string) map[string]*proto.UserNameList {
 	if len(m) == 0 {
 		return nil
 	}
 	out := make(map[string]*proto.UserNameList, len(m))
 	for groupID, names := range m {
-		id, ok := e.groupPublicXid(groupID)
+		id, ok := e.authorizedGroupKey(groupID)
 		if !ok {
 			continue
 		}
@@ -351,6 +349,24 @@ func (e *componentEncoder) encodeAuthorizedGroups(m map[string][]string) map[str
 	return out
 }
 
+// authorizedGroupKey resolves the wire key for a group that grants SSH access.
+// These are user groups: they hold no peers, so nothing puts them in
+// components.Groups and groupPublicXid cannot see them. Dropping them the way a
+// missing source/destination group is dropped would strip every authorized user
+// from the envelope while PeerConfig still reports SSH enabled, leaving the peer
+// running sshd with nobody able to log in — so the id is passed through instead.
+// AuthorizedGroups and GroupIDToUserIDs are only ever used against each other,
+// on both sides of the wire, so they just have to agree.
+func (e *componentEncoder) authorizedGroupKey(groupID string) (string, bool) {
+	if groupID == "" {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	if id, ok := e.groupPublicXid(groupID); ok {
+		return id, true
+	}
+	return groupID, true
+}
+
 func (e *componentEncoder) groupPublicXid(groupID string) (string, bool) {
 	g, ok := e.components.Groups[groupID]
 	if !ok {
@@ -650,7 +666,7 @@ func (e *componentEncoder) encodeGroupIDToUserIDs(m map[string][]string) map[str
 	}
 	out := make(map[string]*proto.UserIDList, len(m))
 	for groupID, userIDs := range m {
-		id, ok := e.groupPublicXid(groupID)
+		id, ok := e.authorizedGroupKey(groupID)
 		if !ok || len(userIDs) == 0 {
 			continue
 		}
diff --git a/management/internals/shared/grpc/components_encoder_test.go b/management/internals/shared/grpc/components_encoder_test.go
index aeced7055..8698e4835 100644
--- a/management/internals/shared/grpc/components_encoder_test.go
+++ b/management/internals/shared/grpc/components_encoder_test.go
@@ -697,15 +697,20 @@ func TestEncodeNetworkMapEnvelope_RouterPeerNotInComponentsPeers(t *testing.T) {
 func TestEncodeNetworkMapEnvelope_GroupIDToUserIDs(t *testing.T) {
 	c := newTestComponents()
 	c.GroupIDToUserIDs = map[string][]string{
-		"group-src":     {"user-1", "user-2"},
-		"group-missing": {"user-4"}, // group not in components → drop
+		"group-src":   {"user-1", "user-2"},
+		"group-users": {"user-4"},
 	}
 
 	full := EncodeNetworkMapEnvelope(ComponentsEnvelopeInput{Components: c}).GetFull()
 
-	require.Len(t, full.GroupIdToUserIds, 1, "only present groups survive")
+	require.Len(t, full.GroupIdToUserIds, 2,
+		"a peer group is keyed by its public id, and a user group — which never appears in "+
+			"components.Groups — keeps its own id rather than being dropped, or the peer would "+
+			"receive no authorized SSH users at all")
 	require.Contains(t, full.GroupIdToUserIds, "1")
 	assert.ElementsMatch(t, []string{"user-1", "user-2"}, full.GroupIdToUserIds["1"].UserIds)
+	require.Contains(t, full.GroupIdToUserIds, "group-users")
+	assert.ElementsMatch(t, []string{"user-4"}, full.GroupIdToUserIds["group-users"].UserIds)
 }
 
 func TestToProxyPatch_EmptyInputReturnsNil(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/shared/management/networkmap/networkmapcompute.go b/shared/management/networkmap/networkmapcompute.go
index 0701da710..067010385 100644
--- a/shared/management/networkmap/networkmapcompute.go
+++ b/shared/management/networkmap/networkmapcompute.go
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ func (nmd *NetworkMapData) GetPeerNetworkMapComponents(peerID string, peersCusto
 		}
 
 		for _, policy := range policies {
-			if policy == nil || len(policy.Rules) == 0 || policy.Rules[0] == nil {
+			if policy == nil || !policy.Enabled || len(policy.Rules) == 0 || policy.Rules[0] == nil {
 				continue
 			}
 			if addSourcePeers {
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ func (nmd *NetworkMapData) GetPeerNetworkMapComponents(peerID string, peersCusto
 			}
 
 			for _, rule := range policy.Rules {
-				if rule == nil {
+				if rule == nil || !rule.Enabled {
 					continue
 				}
 				for _, srcGroupID := range rule.Sources {
@@ -171,15 +171,21 @@ func (nmd *NetworkMapData) GetPeerNetworkMapComponents(peerID string, peersCusto
 		if addSourcePeers {
 			components.RoutersMap[resource.NetworkID] = networkRoutingPeers
 			for peerIDKey := range networkRoutingPeers {
-				if p := nmd.Peers[peerIDKey]; p != nil {
-					if _, exists := components.RouterPeers[peerIDKey]; !exists {
-						components.RouterPeers[peerIDKey] = p
-					}
-					if _, exists := components.Peers[peerIDKey]; !exists {
-						if _, validated := nmd.ValidatedPeers[peerIDKey]; validated {
-							components.Peers[peerIDKey] = p
-						}
-					}
+				p := nmd.Peers[peerIDKey]
+				if p == nil {
+					continue
+				}
+				// An unapproved peer must not carry traffic, so it is kept out of
+				// RouterPeers as well: the envelope encoder indexes that map into
+				// the wire peer table, from which the client restores every entry.
+				if _, validated := nmd.ValidatedPeers[peerIDKey]; !validated {
+					continue
+				}
+				if _, exists := components.RouterPeers[peerIDKey]; !exists {
+					components.RouterPeers[peerIDKey] = p
+				}
+				if _, exists := components.Peers[peerIDKey]; !exists {
+					components.Peers[peerIDKey] = p
 				}
 			}
 			components.NetworkResources = append(components.NetworkResources, resource)
diff --git a/shared/management/networkmap/networkmapcompute_test.go b/shared/management/networkmap/networkmapcompute_test.go
index 0daae81dd..8c9add8c1 100644
--- a/shared/management/networkmap/networkmapcompute_test.go
+++ b/shared/management/networkmap/networkmapcompute_test.go
@@ -1103,8 +1103,9 @@ func TestGetPeerNetworkMapComponents_NetworkResources_SourceSide(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, []*nmdata.NetworkResource{res}, c.NetworkResources)
 	assert.Equal(t, map[string][]*nmdata.Policy{"res-1": {rp}}, c.ResourcePoliciesMap)
 	assert.Equal(t, map[string]map[string]*nmdata.NetworkRouter{"net-1": routers}, c.RoutersMap)
-	assert.ElementsMatch(t, []string{routerOK.ID, routerUnval.ID}, peerIDSet(c.RouterPeers),
-		"RouterPeers carries all routing peers regardless of validation")
+	assert.ElementsMatch(t, []string{routerOK.ID}, peerIDSet(c.RouterPeers),
+		"an unvalidated routing peer is withheld from RouterPeers too, since the envelope encoder "+
+			"indexes that map into the wire peer table and the client restores every entry from it")
 	assert.ElementsMatch(t, []string{targetID, routerOK.ID}, peerIDSet(c.Peers),
 		"only validated routing peers are connected")
 	assert.ElementsMatch(t, []string{"g-clients", "g-resource"}, groupIDSet(c.Groups))
diff --git a/shared/management/types/networkmap_components.go b/shared/management/types/networkmap_components.go
index 1339fbbdf..d008ece83 100644
--- a/shared/management/types/networkmap_components.go
+++ b/shared/management/types/networkmap_components.go
@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ func (c *NetworkMapComponents) processResourcePolicies(
 	var routes []*nmdata.Route
 
 	for _, policy := range c.ResourcePoliciesMap[resource.ID] {
-		if policy == nil || len(policy.Rules) == 0 || policy.Rules[0] == nil {
+		if policy == nil || !policy.Enabled || len(policy.Rules) == 0 || policy.Rules[0] == nil {
 			continue
 		}
 		peers := c.getResourcePolicyPeers(policy)