I have a lot of different services which I self host for me and my family like:
- PeerTube
- Lemmy
- Mastodon
- Synology NAS
- TTRSS
- NextCloud
- Matrix
- HomeAssistant
- etc.
Right now every family member needs to create a user on each of those services and have a different password on them, which is OK when you use a Password Manager, but most of my extended family members don’t. And they often forget their password and stop using the service because they can’t figure out how to reset the password with each and every service.
I would like to try to consolidate all of it with a Single Sign-On (SSO) solution but It’s not obvious to me if there is one which is not overly over engineered for hundreds of thousands of users but small and lightweight, perhaps even easy to set up.
I tried OpenLDAP but Jesus that was very involved.
I use authelia. It’s pretty straight forward to get started with, I just use the yaml user file and a SQLite database for sessions. I’m running it in podman with auto updates enabled for the tag I’m using (can’t remember which tag, but not latest).
I then use their tutorials as a base for the systems I want to use oidc with (grafana, miniflux…), or just redirect traffic through my reverse proxy to services that lacks proper authentication (looking at you, *arr stack).
I use caddy and traefik for reverse proxy, and it’s very simple to use
forward_authand similar with it.It took an evening to figure it out but it’s well worth it!