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Sunshine: Replace basic auth

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1-3 months C++ CSS effort:Large HTML JavaScript LizardByte/Sunshine planned priority:High Rest API Vue
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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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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. 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

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