Hey guys, I’m running a simple docker compose server on an old laptop, hosting calibre(web), nextcloud and navidrome exposed on a cloudflare domain. Nextcloud allows 2fa, however navidrome and calibre web don’t, so I thought I’d better get onto setting up Authelia…
Been having issues setting it up, and now I’m starting to wonder if its worth the trouble after all. I’m sure NC is fine sercrity wise but will I be fine leaving the other two exposed to the internet? I know having Authelia is definitely better… but is it really worth it if I haven’t pissed off any hackers, and am just a normal dude?
Thanks!
As am alternative for Authelia you can take a look at Authentik. I didn’t use it by myself, but read a lot of it. Configuration is done via GUI and not text based like Authelia.
IMHO a much more straight and easier approach would be to use a reverse proxy (like Nginx Proxy Manager and use basic auth.
Trying out Authentik now, and having some more issues… Following various guides I can get to a stage where I access the Authentik UI locally, but when I go into NPM Advanced tab and add the stuff to forward auth requests to Authentic (proxy pass and whatnot), this causes NPM to have that proxy host set to Offline…
I think I might just take a break and get onto this stuff later. I don’t know if I’m smart enough for this yet (I’m a data scientist not a computer scientist!!) Still got a lot to learn
Ah yeah forgot to say I’m using nginx proxy manager already, screw chucking all that stuff on the internet without a reverse proxy
Will look into authentik though!!
Can vouch for Authentik. Easily to setup and Maintain. I switched from Authelia to Authentik
Do you need to expose the services to the entire Internet or can you use something like tailscale or zerotier (these require installing an app on each remote device, but don’t open up ports to the internet).
I could, I do find it very convenient having my services exposed though. Makes it easy to connect to the calibre opds from my e-reader, don’t have to have wireguard fight with mullvad etc…
But maybe I will just switch to vpn rather than exposed, the security would take a load off my shoulders
I started up setting up authelia this week so I could have 2fa on immich, then stopped when I learned it doesn’t have built in ldap. So I set up authentik and it’s been solid enough so far
Why does it sound like Mike Tyson answering the question “what is the smallest continent?”
It is worth but think about:
Must you open ports for the complete internet? Maybe one ip (your company) is enough? Also …
I use with Authelia a tls cert in caddy so only browser (mobiles also) with this cert can reach my site… and my services behind Authelia …