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What Self-Hosted Single Sign-On (SSO) do you use? (jemmy.jeena.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Other SSO options are just a tough if not more complex than authentik. If you use docker and are self hosting, this is a great option. Provides basically every SSO option to connect all your services, especially if you combine it with a good reverse proxy like traefik to provide SSO to simple webapps.

If you are setting up a self hosted infrastructure and have some experience, I highly recommend checking out techno Tim's "ssl everywhere" video for wild card ssl with traefik and then combine that with authentik for SSO with both local only and internet accessible apps.