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Sunshine: Replace basic auth
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Description
### Is there an existing issue for this item?
- [x] I have searched the existing issues
### Repositories
LizardByte/Sunshine
### Languages/Skills/Technologies
C++, HTML, Vue, JavaScript, CSS, Rest API
### Description
Replacing basic auth with JWT will improve security and be more user friendly. Basic auth is also not compatible with password managers.
There has been an attempt to complete this work already, but it has fallen a little behind.
- https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/pull/2252
- https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/pull/2995
### Estimated Effort
effort:Large
### Priority
priority:High
### Target Milestone
1-3 months
### Dependencies
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the referenced Sunshine pull requests #2252 and #2995, which contain earlier attempts at this work. Then trace the current authentication entry points across LizardByte/Sunshine. Done means replacing basic auth with JWT while improving security and password-manager compatibility.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, css, html, javascript
- Domain
- api, authentication, security, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100