jfa-go/README.md

jfa-go is a user management app for Jellyfin that provides invite-based account creation as well as other features that make one's instance much easier to manage.

I chose to rewrite the python jellyfin-accounts in Go mainly as a learning experience, but also to slightly improve speeds and efficiency.

Features

• 🧑 Invite based account creation: Sends invites to your friends or family, and let them choose their own username and password without relying on you.
  • Send invites via a link and/or email
  • Granular control over invites: Validity period as well as number of uses can be specified.
  • Account defaults: Configure an example account to your liking, and its permissions, access rights and homescreen layout can be applied to all new users.
  • Password validation: Ensure users choose a strong password.
• 📨 Email storage: Add your existing user's email addresses through the UI, and jfa-go will ask new users for them on account creation.
  • Email addresses can optionally be used instead of usernames
• 🔑 Password resets: When user's forget their passwords and request a change in Jellyfin, jfa-go reads the PIN from the created file and sends it straight to the user via email.
• Notifications: Get notified when someone creates an account, or an invite expires.
• Authentication via Jellyfin: Instead of using separate credentials for jfa-go and Jellyfin, jfa-go can use it as the authentication provider.
  • Enables the usage of jfa-go by multiple people
• 🌓 Customizable look
  • Specify contact and help messages to appear in emails and pages
  • Light and dark themes available
  • Optionally provide custom CSS

Interface

Install

Available on the AUR as jfa-go.

For other platforms, grab an archive from the release section for your platform, and extract jfa-go and data to the same directory.

• For linux users, you can place them inside /opt/jfa-go and then run sudo ln -s /opt/jfa-go/jfa-go /usr/bin/jfa-go to place it in your PATH.

Run the executable to start.

For docker, run:

docker create \
             --name "jfa-go" \ # Whatever you want to name it
             -p 8056:8056 \
             -v /path/to/.config/jfa-go:/data \ # Equivalent of ~/.jf-accounts
             -v /path/to/jellyfin:/jf \ # Path to jellyfin config directory
             -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \ # Makes sure time is correct
             hrfee/jfa-go

Build from source

A Dockerfile is provided that creates an image built from source, but it's only suitable for those who will run jfa-go in docker.

Full build instructions can be found here.

Usage

Simply run jfa-go to start the application. A setup wizard will start on localhost:8056 (or your own specified address). Upon completion, refresh the page.

Note: jfa-go does not run as a daemon by default. You'll need to figure this out yourself.

Usage of ./jfa-go:
  -config string
    	alternate path to config file. (default "~/.config/jfa-go/config.ini")
  -data string
    	alternate path to data directory. (default "~/.config/jfa-go")
  -host string
    	alternate address to host web ui on.
  -port int
    	alternate port to host web ui on.

If you're switching from jellyfin-accounts, copy your existing ~/.jf-accounts to:

• XDG_CONFIG_DIR/jfa-go (usually ~/.config) on *nix systems,
• %AppData%/jfa-go on Windows,
• ~/Library/Application Support/jfa-go on macOS.

(or specify config/data path with -config/-data respectively.)