Hi all,
Well, my question is in the title of of post. :-)
Does somebody know if there exists an easy sollution to share files to users (e.g. members of an organisation), based on the fact that the user is known in a SSO (authentik) ?
I know nextcloud would be an option, but that would create a nextcloud account for all the users, … which is quite overkill for what is needed here.
I know we can probably build something based on apache, PHP or so, … but if there would be a ready-to-use service for this, that would be nice. (and probably a lot more secure then what I would build myself :-) ).
Kr.
You could use just a simple Apache (or even some simpler static file server) with no authentication what so ever, but only accessible to your own network. Then, add a Reverse Proxy Gateway such as Traefik, Caddy or whatever else, and add Authentik as a Middleware. User heads to the site (I.e.: https://files.yourdomain.ext/), Reverse Proxy Gateway bounces the request to the Middleware (I.e. Authentik), requires the SSO via whatever authority you’ve got setup, gets bounced back, and then your Reverse Proxy Gateway serves up the static content via the internal network without authentication (i.e.: http://172.16.10.3/).
Check out Forward Auth section of Authentik docs here: https://goauthentik.io/docs/providers/proxy/forward_auth
Yes, that’s a very useful idea. Thanks!