I use Calibre-Web and external auth. The auth headers are added by Authelia + Nginx which sit in front of it.
Not exactly turn-key, but since I was already using Authelia, it was simple enough to switch from local accounts to external.
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Similarly I use COPS (php calibre front-end)... But with no users or auth. If you can guess the URL you are in! Exciting.
Any good resources you can point me to for that?
I use the version packaged by linuxserver.io:
https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-calibre-web/
Unfortunately, that's about as good of docs as I've been able to find for it.
To configure external auth, go to its web interface at /admin/config and then expand "Feature Configuration"
There's a checkbox for "Enable reverse proxy authentication" and below that a field to specify the header name that will contain the email address of the authenticated user. In my case, it's REMOTE_EMAIL.
That header will vary depending on what you have setup for authentication, but it needs to provide an email address that determines the user.
My version is a little old, but from skimming the current docs, it may support OAUTH now.
Just backup your data and restore it?
Over the years, as I’ve learned more and gotten better at things, I’ve occasionally had the need to try new Linux distros or remake a VM to fix a bigger problem that I’m not skilled enough to detangle yet. I could probably get away with backups and restores now, but Plex’s account management has saved my butt several times over the years, so I figured it was worth checking to see if there was something similar out there.
Jellyfin does books but its a little wonky right now from.my experience
Are you optimistic about the Jellyfin epub library support?
How about using LDAP? It's a bit complicated to learn but it's easy to integrate it in a bunch of applications and it allows you to manage user accounts and permissions in one central place.
Maybe try LLDAP which is a modern implementation (haven't used it myself) which is designed to be simplified and I assume more welcoming to newcomers.
Thanks, I will have to do some googling about that today.
Jellyfin has a (plugin) opds server for ebooks that use the same accounts as the rest of jellyfin. I use calibre to deal with organization/metadata.
If you have a bunch of plex users, switching to jellyfin might be a bridge too far.
Are jellyfin accounts handled through their own account system like Plex?
No. Jellyfin accounts are local. So you need to set them up on the server. No external auth system
Looks like there is an LDAP auth plugin: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-plugin-ldapauth
If you ran such a beast.
I love the look and idea of Kavita, but I wish it was written in something like node.js instead of .net. It requires a handful of shared libraries on non-windows platforms, and I can rarely get it to work.
It's not as slick looking but take a look at Ubooquity. I have it on my Linux server and haven't had any issues. Granted I mostly use it for sharing ebook files, not reading them on the server itself so it might not be what you're looking for
It's worth pointing out that Ubooquity is dead in terms of development.
I recommend going with regular backups and maybe something like docker. Then you just have to restore the config volumes and all the accounts should still be there.