[Kavita] Alternative account provider (OIDC/SSO)

[DieselTech]

Idea Description

Posted by BrainWart
· Nov 2021
· 122 Combined upvotes between:

https://feats.kavitareader.com/posts/96/add-openid-connect-support-or-allow-user-login-by-header
https://feats.kavitareader.com/posts/23/alternative-account-provider

Description

I would like to have users sign in using OAuth or some other authentication provider to help with centralized account management.

Duration of Using Kavita

42

Idea Category

Feature Enhancement

Agreement

• I agree that this is solely for submitting ideas, and I will search for existing ideas before posting.

[earth4s]

It would be nice to give my users an option to login with their Google accounts, this might take some of the burden of account and password management off the admins plate.

[DDriggs00]

I definitely agree that this is an important feature, especially with how useful SSO systems like Authentik, Authelia, etc. are.

[nyhil116]

This is the only reason I don’t use Kavita currently. Heck, even if it were added under Kavita+ I’d pay for that feature by itself.

[DieselTech]

For those following along at home, you can reference this issue to see what is needed to get ODIC started: #2518

[darkf3n1x]

This would be a fantastic feature to have! This way we could utilize plex auth or self hosted authentik.

[Aloe-recite]

any update on this? really missing a SSO option right now!

[DieselTech]

You can read through #2518 to get the overall idea of where this is at. Based on the stats we pulled from active installs reporting in, the average Kavita install has 1.2 users per instance. That isn't enough to warrant the massive amount of time it would take to make this feature. That isn't to say we won't ever support it, but just that the kavita team won't be the ones to create it.

tl;dr - If the community wants OIDC then the community is going to be the one to create the implementation of it. If it meets the minimum standard we set forth then it could get added to the codebase.