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I host some services and now start to slowly let family and friends use some of those services. for myself i have a dashboard (Heimdall, just because it worked nicely first try and I didn't bother looking at others) and I want to also have one for other users. Now I imagine something like that:

  • User authenticates in authelia, which passes username in the header to the dashboard.
  • in the dashboard, the user gets presented with a, yeah, dashboard, with all the services he/she has access to. no login necessary. -no resources are shown to a user, that this user has no access to.

any ideas which dashboard could be utilized to do something like that, without hosting multiple instances or preconfiguring all dashboards for all users?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Try Organizr. You can set a role hierarchy and assign which levels have access to which tabs. Works with Authelia in front handling auth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I started with Heimdall, tried a couple others and then found organizr and stuck with that for ages now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have Organizr up but honestly barely use it. I use Jump for guests and Homepage for myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Homepage is difficult to search for 😀 . Care to share the link?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have homepage too, and I like how clean it looks. But haven't managed to figure out how to password protect it, so I only use it on my home network or when I'm connecting via VPN. Is there a way of adding authentication to it that I missed?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Put Authelia in front of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, will give that a try

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just played around a little, and even got it playing nice with authelia quick. But I find it to loaded for me. No bad, it's looking awesome, but I really just want a few nice looking bookmarks for when the wife forgets what that one service was called again ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd recommend using a separate dashboard for her, tbh. Jump is a really nice landing page.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might not work for you, but I just made a separate heimdall container with only the apps I wanted them to have access to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And how do you disable the editing/configuration in Heimdall?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally I lobotomize the users. /S

...hadn't thought of that! But my family aren't that savvy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow I hadn't even thought of custom dashboards for each user. I use Homepage for my internal dashboard, and Homarr for users. It's got a nice, simple interface with big buttons

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Would be nice if each user could add their own bookmarks so they could use the dashboard as new tab default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fenrus can be setup with different user dashboards and even a guest (no login) dashboard. Not sure about Authelia support though

Edit for link to project: https://github.com/revenz/Fenrus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I tried fenrus before, kinda liked it, but I remember it to be not so performant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Authentik dashboard does this. It's light on customization but I understand it has custom CSS support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had authentik before but I found it to be unnecessarily complicated. Its really a nice one stop shop, doing authentication, authorization, even reverse proxing, but the setup/UI is just ... Not very well designed. Or it's so advanced that it's very far from the no it background hobbyist user