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Assuming the user will not be connecting over vpn, but is both remote and non-technical, how would you expose Jellyfin to them securely?

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Would you need to? Are apps a viable vector in? Basic auth in front of web ui does make sense though.

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (5 children)

What do you mean viable? The web UI is just an app that is delivered to your browser, it makes more or less the same API requests as an app would make, so IDK why the risk would be lower with an app?

If an attacker can access the login endpoint for example to brute force or dictionary attack, it doesn't matter if the web UI is or isn't accessible if the login endpoint it uses is exposed for an app. The attacker could serve their own copy of the web UI and proxy requests to the API your app connects to. Blocking the html from being served doesn't make a difference.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (4 children)
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