i used authentik for a couple years, but it really is a little much for a home server, and very fragile on major version upgrades.

i tried voidauth, but didn’t like it, mostly its visual design

pocket id has been fine. I combine it with tinyauth (uses pocket id for authentication) for services that i use forward-auth with instead of oidc logins. So far so good, and it’s convenient that bitwarden handles passkeys so it’s easy to login from multiple devices.

Pocket ID is as simple to set up as OIDC can get. I have been using it for around a year without any issues. There is no password option though. It is essentially Passkey only.

Pocket id

I have used keycloak for work and home for years and love it. A lot of flexibility, which comes with some additional complexity but there are lots of guides for it.

I’ve been happy with voidauth. It does what I need for the most part.

I tried athelia and Authentic, and it somehow was not what I was looking for, too much for my needs.

Then I tried tinyauth, which was too little (no User Management at all, users have to be defined in a text file or via Environment variables)

I am now using Voidauth and I am very happy with it. It does what I need perfectly and without a hassle. Which is: Users and Groups, invite links for new users, LDAP server and first of all, it is very easy to use.

I started with authelia, but decided I’d rather not fork around with config files all the time ( I didn’t have issues with it though ).

Then I switched to voidauth which has more UI. Works well too, but I find the UI a bit confusing to use. It is a bit atypical in the sense that going back and forward between menus is different and bothers me for some reason.

Currently running that in parallel with pocket. I’m charmed by the simplicity of not having to deal with or worry about passwords. It also has a built in dashboard of apps you can access which removes the need ( for me ) to run something else and keep that up to date.

I like Authentik, as I really like:

• Support for every auth protocol, particularly OIDC and LDAP
• Invites that can invite multiple people, letting me onboard a room of people at once
• Python based scripting that lets me script some integrations and do API calls when users authenticate

But at the same time, Authentik is very, very complex.

If you just want LDAP and OIDC in the same app, I would probably recommend KanIDM. KanIDM also does invites (although only one user at a time).

If you just want OIDC itself, pocket ID (passwordless /passkey only) and void auth both are really simple OIDC providers (that also support sign ups/invite links. EDIT: Ah, it looks like Void Auth has an experimental read only LDAP server feature. Nice.

I am also paying attention to (some less popular options):

• Rauthy: Fairly minimal, supporting OIDC… but also supports PAM for Linux/Unix integrations
• Casdoor: seems to be feature rich like authentik, but perhaps not as difficult to deploy and configure
• Univention Nubus: An open source, European auth software, that is feature rich, but has an appliance virtual machine that might make it easier to install.

Kanidm!

https://kanidm.com/

The project is intended to be secure by default, the documentation is excellent and as kanidm manages authentication they have sensibly adopted a strict anti-LLM policy.