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Sharing Jellyfin (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi folks. So, I know due to a myriad of reasons I should not allow Jellyfin access to the open internet. However, in trying to switch family over from Plex, I'll need something that "just works".

How are people solving this problem? I've thought about a few solutions, like whitelisting ips (which can change of course), or setting up VPN or tail scale (but then that is more work than they will be willing to do on their side). I can even add some level of auth into my reverse proxy, but that would break Jellyfin clients.

Wondering what others have thought about for this problem

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If you're worried about it, make sure to not use a default path. Then legit clients are fine but these theoretical attackers get stymied.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What? Why would I have to make my library harder to manage just because Jellyfin devs can't get their act together? They should just start a api/v2 and secure it properly while allowing to disable the old one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I’m with you that you shouldn’t have to, but putting your media directory one level up in a randomly generated directory name isn’t too bad. ~/[random uuid]/media/… may not be a terrible idea in any case.