[Feature] User authentication

[yroyathon]

This is great so far, what would be even better for me is if there were some user authentication on the front-end.

[calibrain]

To be honest, I just use Cloudflare tunnel with authentik in front of it, so I don't have a need for user authentication, but I can see how it can be useful.

The problem is CWA does not support users for uploading to the ingest folder, so it's not really useful to implement.

What is your use case ?

[yroyathon]

Similar to Overseerr and CWA or any other service of value, I would expose this service and rely on user authentication to not let anyone submit requests for downloads. For all my other services so far, I haven't had to create my own user authentication/authorization piece.

[yroyathon]

I can look into adding Authentik to my stack, if that's what will solve this issue. I remember doing research on this category of self-hosted software a while ago and there were many choices with lots of pros/cons, I couldn't see a clear winner.

[calibrain]

If you don't mind Cloudflare, or if you are the only user of the service, you can use Cloduflare Zero Trust One Time PIN
I used to have it for several years until I started giving access to friends and family and it became too much of a hassle to manage, so I moved to authentik

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/identity/one-time-pin/

[yroyathon]

I was able to add-on some external user authentication.