Please add regular password auth!

[mrjones2014]

This software looks really great! I would love to self host it on my server to manage my home ownership projects.

However, I do not want to have to set up SMTP and I really, really dislike magic email auth.

Could there be a feature flag or environment variable or something that would enable regular password auth?

[daz-codes]

I imagine you're going to have to look at implementing this yourself ... or somebody else will!

[flavorjones]

I think we're open to accepting code contributions for improved and more flexible authentication options, but we don't have plans right now to do this ourselves at 37signals.

If you're interested in contributing this, let us know and we're happy to give feedback and advice!

[mrjones2014]

I have never written Ruby before but maybe I will give it a shot 😅

[daz-codes]

I might try having a go at it. The auth generator produces what you’re after but still includes email to validate the email address. Would you be happy doing without that?

[mrjones2014]

I would rather not have to set up SMTP at all, and I only plan on exposing it to a small LAN of trusted users (you have to connect to a WireGuard VPN to access my server), so yeah, more than happy with that.

Feel free to ping me, I'm happy to help out however I can.

[dpshade]

Went ahead and threw this together #2027

[mrjones2014]

Awesome! I'd be more than happy with Passkeys!

[jzimdars]

On principle, I think we're more likely to go with passkeys as an alternate auth option rather than traditional passwords.

[dpshade]

This would satisfy my problems! I too can't stand email auth only

[dpshade]

Gave this a go with the help of Claude Code #2027

[jmesterh]

A bit of anecdata: after watching the intro video and thinking maybe I'll give it a shot, I was disappointed to find no SSO support, and then wrote off the entire thing when I saw it was magic email auth only. Forcing people to look at their unread emails, and likely noticing something even more important than logging into to Fizzy seems to go against the entire philosophy in the intro video. I truly hope you reconsider this in the future, because otherwise this looks great.