How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet?
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Yeah my wife and I are both on Android, and I haven't been able to figure out why it does that.
The Android client is open-source so maybe someone could figure it out. https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android
even thou the Quick Toggle and the app itself, shows as running
If I disconnect/reconnect the notification comes back, and I've found something even more weird on my device (A Xiaomi with its infamous OOM / background app killer....) is Tailscale still actually works fine most of the time without the foreground notification. I'm hazarding a 70% of the time for me?
A lot of us a while back found v1.5.2 fugged around with the persistent notification going RIP
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I already host multiple services via caddy as my reverse proxy. Jellyfin, I am worried about authentication. How do you secure it?
My setup:
- Locally (all in docker)
** JF for managing and local access
** JF with read only mounted volumes that uses the network of my Wireguard client container
** Wireguard client opening a tunnel to Wireguard server on VPS
** Ping container regularly doing pings to Wireguard Server so the connection stays up (didn't manage it otherwise) - VPS (Oracle Cloud free tier)
** Caddy as a reverse proxy with https enabled and geolocking (only certain countries are allowed to connect to)
** fail2ban to block IPs that try to bruteforce credentials
** Wireguard server
So my clients just get the URL of my reverse proxy and can access the read only JF through my Wireguard tunnel. Didn't have to open any ports on my side. If someone is interested I can share the docker compose files later.
- Locally (all in docker)
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My setup:
- Locally (all in docker)
** JF for managing and local access
** JF with read only mounted volumes that uses the network of my Wireguard client container
** Wireguard client opening a tunnel to Wireguard server on VPS
** Ping container regularly doing pings to Wireguard Server so the connection stays up (didn't manage it otherwise) - VPS (Oracle Cloud free tier)
** Caddy as a reverse proxy with https enabled and geolocking (only certain countries are allowed to connect to)
** fail2ban to block IPs that try to bruteforce credentials
** Wireguard server
So my clients just get the URL of my reverse proxy and can access the read only JF through my Wireguard tunnel. Didn't have to open any ports on my side. If someone is interested I can share the docker compose files later.
- Locally (all in docker)
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Jellyfin is secure by default, as long as you have https. Just chose a secure password
No, it isn't.
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No, it isn't.
Wtf. Thank you
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I just stay connected to wireguard even at home, only downside is the odd time I need to chromecast, it needs to be shut off.
Oh shit, you may have just solved my only issue with Symfonium
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No, it isn't.
Some of these are bonkers. The argument not to fix them because of backwards compatibility is even wilder. Which normal client would need the ability to get data for any other account that it hasn't the Auth token for.
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Will share this evening after work.
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if the cameras don’t load, open Tailscale and make sure it’s connected
I've been using Tailscale for a few months now and this is my only complaint. On Android and macOS, the Tailscale client gets randomly killed. So it's an extra thing you have to manage.
It's almost annoying enough to make me want to host my services on the actual internet....... almost... but not yet.
Look up your phone on dontkillmyapp.com and make sure tailscale is excluded from battery and network "optimization".
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if the cameras don’t load, open Tailscale and make sure it’s connected
I've been using Tailscale for a few months now and this is my only complaint. On Android and macOS, the Tailscale client gets randomly killed. So it's an extra thing you have to manage.
It's almost annoying enough to make me want to host my services on the actual internet....... almost... but not yet.
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if the cameras don’t load, open Tailscale and make sure it’s connected
I've been using Tailscale for a few months now and this is my only complaint. On Android and macOS, the Tailscale client gets randomly killed. So it's an extra thing you have to manage.
It's almost annoying enough to make me want to host my services on the actual internet....... almost... but not yet.
Maybe headscale will do better?
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even thou the Quick Toggle and the app itself, shows as running
If I disconnect/reconnect the notification comes back, and I've found something even more weird on my device (A Xiaomi with its infamous OOM / background app killer....) is Tailscale still actually works fine most of the time without the foreground notification. I'm hazarding a 70% of the time for me?
A lot of us a while back found v1.5.2 fugged around with the persistent notification going RIP
Oh the Quick Toggle has never, ever worked correctly. I had hope they had fixed it after the UI refresh update but unfortunately not yet.
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even thou the Quick Toggle and the app itself, shows as running
If I disconnect/reconnect the notification comes back, and I've found something even more weird on my device (A Xiaomi with its infamous OOM / background app killer....) is Tailscale still actually works fine most of the time without the foreground notification. I'm hazarding a 70% of the time for me?
A lot of us a while back found v1.5.2 fugged around with the persistent notification going RIP
Oh the Quick Toggle has never, ever worked correctly. I hoped they fixed it after the UI refresh update but unfortunately not yet.
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even thou the Quick Toggle and the app itself, shows as running
If I disconnect/reconnect the notification comes back, and I've found something even more weird on my device (A Xiaomi with its infamous OOM / background app killer....) is Tailscale still actually works fine most of the time without the foreground notification. I'm hazarding a 70% of the time for me?
A lot of us a while back found v1.5.2 fugged around with the persistent notification going RIP
Oh the Quick Toggle has never, ever worked correctly. I hoped they fixed it after the UI refresh update but unfortunately not yet.
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No, it isn't.
Oh boy. Nope. My friends gonna have to fiddle with a VPN, forget exposing JF to the outside...
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Oh the Quick Toggle has never, ever worked correctly. I hoped they fixed it after the UI refresh update but unfortunately not yet.
What device/ROM are you using?
It's been very iffy for me on and off from Miui > HyperHyperOS, but just checking now?
Works fine
Like I say, the foreground notification seemed to be the lifeline to some of us using it and keeping it alive, even after IIRC some more restrictions came in with future versions of Android (forgive me, I'm very lazy these days and just skim Mishaal's TG feed
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What device/ROM are you using?
It's been very iffy for me on and off from Miui > HyperHyperOS, but just checking now?
Works fine
Like I say, the foreground notification seemed to be the lifeline to some of us using it and keeping it alive, even after IIRC some more restrictions came in with future versions of Android (forgive me, I'm very lazy these days and just skim Mishaal's TG feed
)?For me it's always been busted both on AOSP and Miui/HyperOS...
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For me it's always been busted both on AOSP and Miui/HyperOS...
Huh. The nearest I have to an actual "AOSP" device is my King Kong Cubot phone that has probably the cleanest version of "stock Android" I've ever seen, and I'm going to presume you mean like a Google Pixel / Graphene etc?
Tailscale and the QS tile / notification was solid on that Cubot but to be honest, I've barely turned it on these days and is now one of those drawer phones.
Miui / HyperHyperOS though is a different kettle of fish and exempting Tailscale from its App lel Killer does seem to work. 70-80%ish.....
But there is something that just fuggs up and I to like I say turn it off/on like most thingys I own
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I already host multiple services via caddy as my reverse proxy. Jellyfin, I am worried about authentication. How do you secure it?
For web access, stick it behind a reverse proxy and use something like Authentik/Authelia/SSO provider of your choice.
For full access including native clients, set up a VPN.
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CloudFlare tunnel with Zero Trust, plus their bot and abuse blocking. Users can get in with the right oauth, plus only allowed from the countries I know they're in. Then just their username and password on jellyfin.
Using cloudflare tunnels means nothing is encrypted and cloudflare sees all.
