Optional reverse-proxy (forward-auth) authentication mode#2
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Add AUTH_MODE=proxy to delegate authentication to an authenticating reverse proxy in front of OpenLeads (Authelia, Authentik, oauth2-proxy, Pomerium, Cloudflare Access, ...). It reads the user and optional groups from configurable headers, verifies a shared-secret header to prevent spoofing, provisions the user on first sight (no password), and maps a group to the admin role. The built-in login form is disabled in this mode. Default stays AUTH_MODE=password, so existing installs are unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds an optional
AUTH_MODE=proxythat delegates authentication to an authenticating reverse proxy in front of OpenLeads, so the app can sit behind SSO/MFA without implementing OAuth itself. Works with any forward-auth proxy (Authelia, Authentik, oauth2-proxy, Pomerium, Cloudflare Access, …).Behaviour
AUTH_MODE=password(default) — unchanged: the built-in login form + local accounts.AUTH_MODE=proxy— trusts the identity the proxy forwards in headers:No cookie/session in proxy mode — the proxy owns the session; identity is re-read per request.
Config
All new vars are documented in
api/.env.exampleanddocs/SETUP.md, and default to the widely-usedX-Forwarded-*header set. Nothing is tied to a specific proxy.Tests
New
api/src/proxyAuth.test.ts(7 cases: secret enforcement, JIT provisioning, group→role mapping, role re-sync, password-login disabled for provisioned users). Full suite green (145/145); web typechecks clean.🤖 Generated with Claude Code