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as a noob, should I connect jellyfin with tailscale using OIDC? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago by Sirius006@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello everyone,

I want to create a Tailscale account to access my Jellyfin server from outside my home, but I’m already stuck at the first step: to create an account, you need either a GAFAM account or OIDC. I don’t have any personal accounts with GAFAM because of Lemmy’s bad influence. My emails are on Tuta. I don’t want to overcomplicate things as I'm a noob, but after spending 30 minutes researching OIDC, I still don’t know where to start… I don’t work in IT (at all).

Is it better to just give up and create a throwaway account with a GAFAM platform, or is there a simple way to do this with OIDC? If so, can anyone point me the way? Is there a free reliable OIDC provider? Will that make things complicated afterward with tail scale?

For more context: I turned my old gaming PC into a media center running Fedora and a Jellyfin server that I access locally. I was surprised by how relatively simple it all was, especially getting Jellyfin to work locally.

Obviously, I wanted to use Tailscale to connect to Jellyfin remotely, but I never had time to look into it. I was told this morning that I’m going to undergo major surgery with a significant recovery period ahead, so suddenly this has become urgent...

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[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Setting up an OIDC provider isn't particularly difficult, but you'll have to run it as a publicly accessible server in order for tailscale to interact with it.

It looks like you can register at netbird.io with email and password.

In your shoes I'd setup that for now, and later look into OIDC or (probably better) into self-hosting nebula (or maybe netbird).

[–] Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

Netbird has a free tier that they host, It seems simple enough and it is open source! That's a lot of perks. I'll start by trying that !