Comment on Sharing Jellyfin
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 weeks agoIt’s not impossible, Far from it. The ids are not random uuids but hashes derived from the path. Since most people have a similar setup to organize their media, this gets trivial very fast
synestine@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If you’re worried about it, make sure to not use a default path. Then legit clients are fine but these theoretical attackers get stymied.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
What? Why would I have to make my library harder to manage just because Jellyfin devs can’t get their act together? They should just start a api/v2 and secure it properly while allowing to disable the old one
blitzen@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m with you that you shouldn’t have to, but putting your media directory one level up in a randomly generated directory name isn’t too bad. ~/[random uuid]/media/… may not be a terrible idea in any case.
synestine@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ah, so you’re the kind who loves bitching about things online, but won’t lift a finger to defend themself, gotcha.
What I mentioned prior doesn’t change anything about library management in the slightest, you just wanted an excuse.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
No, I’m the kind who thinks security by obscurity is bullshit. But you do you