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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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[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

I was very skeptical because I didn't want to punch holes into that nice safe lan. Pangolin got me in the end after I left tail scale with its easy docker for a cheap vps (1GB ram) and its approach in general.

For example I am running my services locally in a docker via compose. I add a newt endpoint (pangolin talk) that is a docker container with some with info for my pangolin instance ton said compose and I have only the content of said docker compose connected via wireguard.

Next step is exposing a public resource where you choose a specific service and port to map to a public URL.

It is all so compartmentalized its fantastic and makes me feel good about that public service.

Securing that service itself is possible with an additional auth layer.