Option to accept an access token instead of username/password

[notself]

Is it possible to accept an access token directly instead of a username and password?

This would allow the app to work with the following Paperless setup, which I use:

• Authelia used to manage access to Paperless
• Nginx used as a reverse proxy with the auth_request module configured to use Authelia to authorize requests
• Paperless configured with PAPERLESS_ENABLE_HTTP_REMOTE_USER=true and PAPERLESS_HTTP_REMOTE_USER_HEADER_NAME set to the header configured in Authelia. In my case the default HTTP_REMOTE_USER value
• Nginx configured to bypass Authelia for Paperless /api endpoints

With this setup, it means that:

• User accounts are centralised behind Authelia's user store (in my case a local LDAP server)
• User accounts in Paperless are created automatically on first access
• Paperless accounts don't have a password set
• To access the Paperless API, we can use Django's Admin interface and create a token in admin/authtoken/tokenproxy/ for an existing user

I see the app already allows to add custom headers but at the moment, even if we manually create an Authorization: Token xxxx header, the login flow is still there.

[paulgessinger]

Hey @notself, yeah that's a good idea actually. In the end I really only save the token anyway, so one could just bypass the user/pw login flow by setting the token directly.

I'll look into this!

[notself]

Amazing. Can't wait to try this app!