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Single Sign in for Home Assistant now possible with OpenID (github.com)
submitted 4 months ago by Lem453@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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This is a hugely requested feature for many years and a huge hole in my entire self hosted ecosystem. Every self-hosted app I have connects to my Authentik system for user management... Except home assistant. Arguably one of the apps I need it for the most for the whole family to use with their accounts.

Devs have been resistant for some reason.

There is now a community integratation that allows user management for HA to be via any openID backend (authentik, keycloak etc).

I've been running it for a few days and it works perfectly. Very easy to setup if you already have a working authentik setup and know how to use it with other apps like immich.

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[โ€“] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

For webapp stuff for sure, but when you want to login as the same user with the same perms across all your VMS and baremetal servers at the os, it's nice.

I use virtualization over containerization because i have the hardware resource so I might as well take advantage of improved isolation and security VMS provide. Plus I use Linux on my desktop/laptop, and have a separate dedicated storage host.

Its nice to have everything managed by one service with global accounts and permissions.

Looking at authentik it seems to provide some but not all of that. Def something to keep an eye on if freeipa decides to stop being so free.

If you're running a docker-based environment, and especially if your personal workstation/laptop doesn't run Linux, I totally get it.

I think freeIPA could use an openid provider packed in for sure. I also kinda trust api keys more than creating the service accounts for software that needs to auth.

Outta curiosity how do you handle SSO and File Storage? I like being able to make samba shares that require SSO authentication over something like nextcloud because I can directly mount the disk. Not sure if theres a good option there.

[โ€“] Lem453@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Authentik handles SSO for all my apps like immich, linkwarden, owncloud etc. Openid when available but some web apps are done via forward proxy auth. Jellyfin uses LDAP via authentik which isn't sso technically.

Other than me, no one else mounts samba shares directly. All personal files are synced to server and other devices with owncloud (OCIS).