Trying to create a login page and session authentication

[mark-bull]

Hello, firstly - great project, I have found this incredibly useful and thanks to all that have contributed!

I have got basic authentication working but it's fiddly having to enter the password... and parsing the credentials in the URL is insecure on public wifi connections.

I have tried using the wiki and the piece on auth_token to create a login page that then allows you to view the dashboard after login.

I would like to get a login form that is presented before the dashboard so that I can use auto-fill on my iOS browser to authorise and proceed from the login form. It only needs to be a simple 1 username and password - no DB, etc required.

Has anyone successfully done this with a login form that they can share?

Many thanks in advance!

[sjernigan]

We just use an authenticating reverse proxy in front of apps that don't offer their own auth. We use a local one, but here's one https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy. There are all kinds of reasons that this is a better approach than building it into each app.

[mark-bull]

Hi, thanks for the reply, I just want a simple 1 static username and password (per dashboard) to authenticate access from a login page. Can I use oauth2 to do this?

Many thanks.