SSO via Proxy Auth / HTTP Headers

[prologic]

Hi Team,

Wondering if we can have a discussion about supporting SSO via Proxy Authentication (sometimes called HTTP Header Auth)?

This would be a much simpler way for me to support SSO alongwith Authelia which supports this out-o-f-the box. All I’d have to do is configure vikunja telling it a few things:

• To use HTTP Headers as authentication
• What HTTP Headers to use to identify the user

Many thanks!

cheers
James

[kolaente]

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Reverse proxy header authentication

I have recently discovered Authelia, which works with a reverse proxy (Traefik, in my case) to provide authentication and authorisation. If an application supports it, it’s very elegant - the reverse proxy takes care of all the authentication and session data, and the application just needs to pay attention to HTTP headers (Remote-User, primarily) to know who is currently logged in. Would be great if reverse proxy header authentication could be added to the roadmap!