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[Zozman]

🐣 Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

For situations where you're running Ackee behind a reverse proxy and providing your own authentication layer there (such as nginx's auth_request module) it would be convenient to be able to disable having to provide a username and password.

💡 Describe the solution you'd like

This could be implemented by having an environmental variable that you could set that would either remove the authentication prompt completely when visiting the dashboard or remove it from reports and only require authentication when visiting a sensitive page such as Settings.

❓ Describe alternatives you've considered

It would be nice to be able to pre-fill in the credentials like when you visit https://demo.ackee.electerious.com/ but I have not seen anything in the documentation saying how to do this.

[sid-r-singh]

This is very much a sought-after feature. I would love to have the dashboard publicly available. As you said there can be a toggle switch which modifies the environment variable to make the dashboard public or private.

[Zozman]

I was thinking you could do something like Zozman@a3c9603 where you could have a ACKEE_ANONYMOUS environmental variable that if set to true then the token would be auto-generated when the UI is opened instead of needing a username and password entered.

[electerious]

This feature isn't planned as it doesn't work with the way Ackee was built.

There was already a similar experiment, but we couldn't find a way to protect the UI while keeping the /api endpoint public. ackee-tracker can't track visits when the endpoint isn't public and a public endpoint without a password protection means that everyone can modify and see your data.

I'm however open for a data sharing option which could allow to share domain statistics via a link with a permanent token: #225