Comment on Simple guide to self hosted authentication?

• andy47@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok, I found this - linuxserver.io/…/2020-08-26-setting-up-authelia.

  Which, if I’m reading it correctly tells me that SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway) is essentially a web server, reverse proxy with lets encrypt support. It doesn’t seem to do any authentication.

  Authelia is a component of an identity and authentication solution that provides single sign on and 2FA but, crucially, does not include a user directory, by default it uses a YAML file but can be connected to an LDAP server - www.authelia.com/overview/…/first-factor/

  Which I think goes towards the point in my original post - none of this is simple so I’d like a nice explanation that helps me understand what I need running, how they work together and what settings to use.

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  • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You probably need to realise that this is advanced self hosting here.

    I might suggest you start off with something a bit simpler.

    Run an appplicagion, point Nginx to it, get certbot and follow the instructions on their site to implement it.

    You need to build up to it, because Authentication is a compilation of 5-6 different basic tasks that you need to be across.

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    • andy47@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks. I have all of that. I’ve been at this for a while and am now looking to move to centralised authentication and access management because I’ve got everything else working as I want it. It’s just not ideal to have to maintain seperate logins across each of the services that I’m running. Hence starting to look at authentication. I know it’s complex and the original post was wondering if there is a nice simple introduction to the subject matter.

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      • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep if you’ve got the requisite skills the linuxserver guide is the best for authelia.

        I’ve also ran Keycloak via the red hat documentation.

        That’s really as easy as it gets…if you want to learn, be prepared to pile through the documentation.

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• cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Secure Web Application Gateway.

  And something like “swag selfhosted” or “swag linuxserver” would have been a better search term. You need to lead the horse at least slightly in the direction of water when it comes to Google searches.

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• theghostoutside_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think you have to look for nginx in the swag search github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag

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