Identity management for home lab

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/homelab

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  • lldap

    Light LDAP implementation

  • I used LLDAP for my backend and Authelia for web SSO via OpenIDConnect (an extension of the Oauth standard). Fair warning: both of these are extremely rudimentary with very few features compared to other offerings (Authentic/Keycloak for Authelia, OpenLDAP/AD for LLDAP) but they're comparatively easy to setup, support Docker out of the box, and are both actively being developed. I like how LLDAP has a builtin web UI for managing LDAP objects (though ironically logging into that UI using Authelia isn't supported yet) and Authelia is planning to add SAML support at some point. Everything I needed to setup worked with these two systems, but since it's just LDAP under the hood I could just bind directly to the server if I had some service or system that couldn't authenticate through Authelia.

  • authelia

    The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps

  • I used LLDAP for my backend and Authelia for web SSO via OpenIDConnect (an extension of the Oauth standard). Fair warning: both of these are extremely rudimentary with very few features compared to other offerings (Authentic/Keycloak for Authelia, OpenLDAP/AD for LLDAP) but they're comparatively easy to setup, support Docker out of the box, and are both actively being developed. I like how LLDAP has a builtin web UI for managing LDAP objects (though ironically logging into that UI using Authelia isn't supported yet) and Authelia is planning to add SAML support at some point. Everything I needed to setup worked with these two systems, but since it's just LDAP under the hood I could just bind directly to the server if I had some service or system that couldn't authenticate through Authelia.

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  • authentik

    The authentication glue you need.

  • I use Authentik as well, It's fairly straight forward, flexible, and offers many different forms of auth. You can create all sorts of different Auth flows to suit your needs. I use it as a directory as well as the Identity Provider for all my internal web apps. While you can add a directory as a source it contains an internal directory so its self-contained and simple yet if you wanted to add a directory store( AD, any LDAP store, or even a DB store) you can do so later.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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