Auto login

[aroberts]

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OIDC brought a form of centralized login to mealie, but for those of us who largely implement SSO via header login, mealie is a bit of a second-class citizen, because there is no way to get mealie to recognize that the user is cookied already, and to automatically perform the OIDC flow to log the user in - the user still has to click the "Login" link.

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a REQUIRE_LOGIN or similar env var that, when enabled, would redirect all requests (including /) to the login page if a user was not authenticated. Coupled with the OIDC_AUTO_REDIRECT, this would ideally leave users who are pre-authenticated with their OIDC provider a zero-click path to full interactivity with the site.

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The number of redirects in this pathway is relatively high, which feels clumsy, but the only better approach I see is implementing header-based login, which given the lack of support in the js framework used by mealie, has not gotten significant traction in the past few years.

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I'd be willing to work on this issue, but while I have python experience, I have no nuxtjs experience, nor experience with fastapi, so some signposting would greatly improve my chances of success.

• If this is accepted I'm willing to submit a PR to provide this feature
• If this is accepted I'm willing to help maintain this feature
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