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
- Domain
- api, authentication, security, web-dev
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
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Repositories
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
Dependencies
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- Stars
- 2
- Forks
- 0
- Avg merge
- 25m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 5
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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