Simple authentication for homelab?

johntash@eviltoast.org to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 93 points –

What's everyones recommendations for a self-hosted authentication system?

My requirements are basically something lightweight that can handle logins for both regular users and google. I only have 4-5 total users.

So far, I've looked at and tested:

  • Authentik - Seems okay, but also really slow for some reason. I'm also not a fan of the username on one page, password on the next screen flow
  • Keycloak - Looks like it might be lighter in resources these days, but definitely complicated to use
  • LLDAP - I'd be happy to use it for the ldap backend, but it doesn't solve the whole problem
  • Authelia - No web ui, which is fine, but also doesn't support social logins as far as I can tell. I think it would be my choice if it did support oidc
  • Zitadel - Sounds promising, but I spent a couple hours troubleshooting it just to get it working. I might go back to it, but I've had the most trouble with it so far and can't even compare the actual config yet
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Depending on what you are trying to do, Authelia does have OIDC in beta https://www.authelia.com/roadmap/active/openid-connect/

I use Authelia again since in beta it now supports multiple Pass/FIDO keys via the web interface, and it does work reasonably well.

OIDC does indeed work fine too.

I use it on nextcloud and immich and a few others.

You will be much more hard pressed to find apps that support SSO and oidc than oidc that authelia is broken on.

Hmm I thought authelia could only act as an oidc provider, I didn't think it could allow logging in through a Google account for example?

I'll take a look at the docs again, thanks!

After looking deeper into the docs they do not support and do not plan to support the Relying Party role. So it probably won't fit for this use case.

Thanks for confirming, I just saw that as well.

I'm going to try some of the other solutions in this thread, but I might still come back to authelia and just ignore my requirement for having social login. I like the idea of sending someone a link and saying "Hey just log in with your google account" instead of having to create an actual user for them, but maybe I can use something else specifically for those cases.