Sunshine: Replace basic auth

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, css, html, javascript

Research direction

Start by reviewing the referenced Sunshine pull requests #2252 and #2995, which contain earlier attempts at this work. Then trace the current authentication entry points across LizardByte/Sunshine. Done means replacing basic auth with JWT while improving security and password-manager compatibility.

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Description

1-3 months C++ CSS effort:Large HTML JavaScript LizardByte/Sunshine planned priority:High Rest API Vue
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LizardByte/Sunshine

Languages/Skills/Technologies

C++, HTML, Vue, JavaScript, CSS, Rest API

Description

Replacing basic auth with JWT will improve security and be more user friendly. Basic auth is also not compatible with password managers.

There has been an attempt to complete this work already, but it has fallen a little behind.

Estimated Effort

effort:Large

Priority

priority:High

Target Milestone

1-3 months

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Merged PRs (30d)
5

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