Authorization

This is my second article on how to set up a modern user management and authentication system for services on your internal home network. In the previous article, I used Authelia as IdP. I looked for an alternative and explored authentik because I had some trouble getting OpenID Connect to work with Authelia. I figured it out eventually, but in the meantime, I’d already completed the authentik configuration, so here is the documentation of an alternative SSO implementation.

This article explains how to set up a simple but modern user management and authentication system for services on your internal home network. The solution supports important security features like two-factor authentication and single sign-on, and only requires minimal maintenance due to self-service password reset. This article is part of my series on home automation, networking & self-hosting that shows how to install, configure, and run a home server & network with dockerized or virtualized services.