Category: System Admin
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Authentik Quick Tip: Direct Social Authentication Without Login Form
A little-known feature in Authentik allows you to skip the login form entirely and redirect users straight to your social authentication provider. The Problem When setting up social authentication in Authentik (like Google, GitHub,…
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Setting Username to Email on Enrollment in Authentik
Introduction Authentik is a powerful identity provider that offers flexible authentication flows for various applications. One common requirement when integrating with external identity providers like Google is to…
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[Solved] Authentik Running behind NGINX Connection Errors
I have an authentik instance set up which has proved quite handy. I noticed howerver, that I was having some intermittent connection errors. In short, make sure to…
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Running out of space? Here is how to remove old backup points with Veeam.
Edit >>Storage >> Change the retention policy. On the next run, veeam will clean up the old backups. 😎
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Auto adding new users to groups in Authentik
I had a new app working, and I needed to add authentication so I could set up a user-specific database when a new user signs in. In other…
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Solving the Mystery of the Missing Zoom Recurring Meetings
Have you ever found yourself in a panic, trying to start a Zoom meeting, only to be thwarted by the elusive nature of recurring meetings? This exact scenario…
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Converting B6T images to ISO images.
I downloaded some old abandoned software the other day, and one of the disk images was in the b6t format. I had no idea what that format was,…
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Here are the steps to mount a network drive permanently on a Linux system:
Step 1: Install the necessary packages You will need to install the cifs-utils package to mount a network drive on a Linux system. You can install it using…
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Authentik [Solved] {“detail”: “Request denied due to expired/invalid license.”, “code”: “denied_license”}
The issue is described here: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/issues/9051#issuecomment-2051505073 In short: The issue was caused by a bug in 2024.2.1 which was fixed in 2024.2.2, but incorrect values could be cached…