Simple guide to self hosted authentication? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by andy47@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'd like to set up my identity and authentication service for my self hosted applications but it is not a beginner friendly subject.

I'm aware of the various tools available; authentik, authelia, LLDAP, keycloak, etc and see lots of useful discussions on them which is great.

But I can't seem to find a beginner friendly introduction to setting up one or more of these tools that helps me understand the core concepts at the same time. Does such a thing exist?

I'd like to try out LLDAP and Authelia on my home lab and then possibly roll this out to my production services.

But every tutorial I've come across seems to assume a fair amount of knowledge that I don't think I have.

For instance if I deploy LLDAP what should I use as my base DN? And how can I seperate a homelab directory from a seperate production directory?

Any pointers gratefully received.

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[-] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 11 points 11 months ago

Simplest would be Authelia and Swag.

Swag comes with prewritten config files and all you really need to do is uncomment a few lines and make sure it's pointed to your service.

Linuxserver.io guides are good for this.

I ended up landing on Keycloak and I believe I set mine up using the ansible script, again it's a matter of plugging in some details.

[-] andy47@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the pointer, I'll check it out. I don't think I've come across SWAG before, and a web search comes up with lots of references to sleeping bags (I'm in Australia - https://outbackreview.com.au/best-swags-australia/). Could you provide pointers and/or a homepage? Thanks in advance.

[-] theghostoutside_@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Haha how good. SWAG is a reverse proxy using Nginx. I use the Docker container.

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