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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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 type: reference
-description: "Audiobookshelf on Dankserver: quadlet shape, the read-only array bind, state on the SSD, the API bootstrap, laws."
+description: "Audiobookshelf on Dankserver: quadlet shape, the read-only array bind, state on the SSD, the API bootstrap, authentik SSO, laws."
 tags:
  - dankserver
  - audiobooks
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ server — it shares nothing with [[Plex]] or [[Jellyfin]] and owns no files on
 array.

 **Host:** Dankserver — **Unit:** `audiobookshelf.service` (rootless Quadlet, user
-manager) — **Internal-only:** LAN address, no vhost, no DNS name.
+manager) — **Internal-only:** LAN address `http://192.168.0.235:8000/audiobookshelf`, no vhost, no DNS name.

 ## Shape

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ manager) — **Internal-only:** LAN address, no vhost, no DNS name.
 | Unit file | `dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container` (the authority for every number here) |
 | Image | `ghcr.io/advplyr/audiobookshelf` pinned by **amd64 manifest digest** — see Laws |
 | Port | `Environment=PORT=8000` + `PublishPort=8000:8000` — web UI and API on one port |
-| Base path | `Environment=ROUTER_BASE_PATH=/` — the URL is the plain `host:port`, no `/audiobookshelf` prefix |
+| Base path | `Environment=ROUTER_BASE_PATH=/audiobookshelf` — every URL below carries this prefix, and the shipped SPA cannot boot without it (Laws) |
 | Network | `pasta` (standalone; publishes nothing to other containers) |
 | Audio bind | `/mnt/entropy/Audiobooks:/audiobooks:ro` — read-only, by design |
 | State | `/home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/config` → `/config`, `…/metadata` → `/metadata` (both NVMe) |
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ manager) — **Internal-only:** LAN address, no vhost, no DNS name.
 | Self-healing | `Restart=always`, `RestartSec=5`, `WantedBy=default.target` |
 | Deploy | `./scripts/deploy.sh dankserver --service audiobookshelf` |
 | Handler | `deploy_audiobookshelf` in `scripts/deploy-remote.sh` |
+| Single sign-on | authentik provider `audiobookshelf`; the local `frank` account stays enabled as break-glass — see *Single sign-on* |
 | Library layout | one book per folder — ABS groups by the first directory holding a media file (see Laws); every move is journalled at `/mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-audiobooks.jsonl` |

 ## Bootstrap
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ difference. The script is idempotent; re-running it costs one incremental scan.
 | scan | `POST /api/libraries/<id>/scan` | `scan: accepted` |
 | proof | `GET /api/libraries/<id>/items?limit=1` | `items: <total>` |

-Sign in at `http://192.168.0.235:8000` as `frank`; the password is
+Sign in at `http://192.168.0.235:8000/audiobookshelf` as `frank`; the password is
 `awk -F= '/^ABS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=/{print $2}' ~/.config/secrets/audiobookshelf` on
 Dankserver. Change it in **Settings → Users → frank → Password**; the secret file
 then holds a stale value and only matters again if the `config` bind is ever
@@ -68,8 +69,9 @@ the file, not the bind: the same line count grows while the total climbs.
 ## Phone app

 The official **Audiobookshelf** app connects with Server Address
-`http://192.168.0.235:8000`, username `frank`, and the same password as the web UI —
-no base-path prefix, plain HTTP. Verified from a second host 2026-11-03: `/healthcheck`
+`http://192.168.0.235:8000/audiobookshelf` — the base path belongs in the address — username
+`frank`, and the same password as the web UI, or the SSO button; plain HTTP. Verified from a
+second host 2026-11-02: `/healthcheck`
 and `/ping` answer 200 across the LAN and `iptables -S INPUT` carries no rule for 8000,
 so a phone on `192.168.0.0/24` connects with no further setup; `download: true` on the
 root account is what makes offline listening work. Away from the LAN it cannot connect —
@@ -81,6 +83,25 @@ inside the user object. A client that reads `response.token` gets the empty stri
 `Authorization: Bearer ` with nothing after it, and every `/api/*` call then answers `401`
 as though the password were wrong.

+## Single sign-on (authentik)
+
+Both doors take the household identity: the web UI puts **Sign in with Authentik** beside
+the local form, and the phone app offers SSO on its server-address screen. The local
+`frank` account stays enabled on purpose — `authActiveAuthMethods` is `local` **and**
+`openid`, and `local` is how you get in when the IdP is down.
+
+| Piece | Owner |
+|-------|-------|
+| Provider `audiobookshelf`, the two groups, the scope mapping | `scripts/authentik-audiobookshelf-sso.sh` — re-run it after an authentik rebuild, because this state lives in the IdP's database and a blueprint re-import reverts it silently |
+| Client secret | `ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET` in `~/.config/secrets/audiobookshelf` on Dankserver (mode 600; never in the repo, a URL or an argv) |
+| The ABS half: issuer, the four IdP URLs, claim, auto-register | `scripts/audiobookshelf-init.sh`, armed automatically when that secret exists in the credential file |
+| Role at first SSO sign-in | the `abs_groups` claim: `audiobookshelf_admins` → `admin`, `audiobookshelf_users` → `user`, in neither → denied (fail closed) |
+
+The IdP saying yes is not the same as being allowed in: with `authOpenIDAutoRegister` on,
+a first sign-in creates the account, and the claim alone decides the type. A user in
+neither group is refused after a successful authentication — that is the mapping working,
+not a broken login.
+
 ## Laws

 - **Speak the image's env names, not the README's.** The server reads `PORT`,
@@ -91,6 +112,21 @@ as though the password were wrong.
  `active (running)` while every probe of `:8000` was refused and the deploy gate
  failed at 180 s. Two seconds with the pinned digest settles it:
  `podman inspect --format '{{.Config.Env}}' <image>`.
+- **The URL carries `/audiobookshelf`, and that is not a style choice.** The SPA in
+  `/app/client/dist/index.html` is built with `routerBasePath:"/audiobookshelf"`, so it asks
+  for its assets under that prefix whatever the server is mounted at. Mounted at `/`, every
+  script request falls through to the SPA fallback, comes back `text/html`, Chrome refuses to
+  execute it, and the page never leaves "Loading…" — while `/healthcheck`, the API and the
+  phone app stay perfectly healthy, which is how this hid behind an API-only verification
+  (measured 2026-11-02). Prove a UI claim in a browser, never from `/health`.
+- **The OIDC redirect subfolder is a value you send, not a default you inherit.** The 2.17.4
+  upgrade only fills `authOpenIDSubfolderForRedirectURLs` on a database that ALREADY had OIDC
+  enabled, so a DB created before SSO leaves it unset and the server builds
+  `http://host/undefined/auth/openid/callback`. authentik answers the authorize request with
+  "Redirect URI Error" and nothing on the ABS side looks wrong (measured 2026-11-02). The
+  provider's registered URI must equal `<origin><subfolder>/auth/openid/callback`, so each
+  script derives the value from one variable of its own (`ABS_URL`, `ABS_BASE`) and
+  `tests/audiobookshelf_init.bats` pins what reaches the wire.
 - **The audio bind stays `:ro`.** ABS writes nothing that belongs beside the
  audio: its library, covers, progress and sidecar metadata all land in
  `/metadata` on the SSD. A writable bind would put stray writes on the spindle
@@ -207,12 +243,12 @@ as though the password were wrong.
 ## Verification

 `./tests/run.sh` covers this unit through `tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats`
-(boot persistence, the SSD state roots, the `:ro` array bind, the mount gate, the
-`wget` health check), `tests/audiobookshelf_init.bats` (the bootstrapper against a
-stub of the API above: create-once, idempotent re-run, no secret in a URL, refusal
-by URL when the server does not answer, and the deployer calling it only after the
-health gate) and `tests/media_overlay.bats` (only [[Plex]] and [[Jellyfin]] may
-reference the metadata view).
+(boot persistence, the SSD state roots, the `:ro` array bind, the mount gate, the `wget`
+health check, the base path the shipped SPA needs), `tests/audiobookshelf_init.bats` (the
+bootstrapper against a stub of the API above: create-once, idempotent re-run, no secret in a
+URL, refusal by URL when the server does not answer, the deployer calling it only after the
+health gate, and the SSO arm sending the mounted base path as the redirect subfolder) and
+`tests/media_overlay.bats` (only [[Plex]] and [[Jellyfin]] may reference the metadata view).

 Five book folders hold media no scanner can read, so they stay out of the library:
 three 2024 Nebula nominees in the `_unsorted` box (two `.m4b` with no `moov` atom,
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ is a locator: one row, one clause, no numbers.

 | Page | Owns |
 |---|---|
-| [[Audiobookshelf]] | Audiobookshelf on Dankserver: quadlet shape, the read-only array bind, state on the SSD, the API bootstrap, laws. |
+| [[Audiobookshelf]] | Audiobookshelf on Dankserver: quadlet shape, the read-only array bind, state on the SSD, the API bootstrap, authentik SSO, laws. |
 | [[Calibre]] | Calibre is the e-book library manager that backs Calibre-Web. |
 | [[Calibre-Web]] | Calibre-Web is a web application that browses, reads, and downloads eBooks from an existing Calibre library database. |
 | [[Copyparty]] | Copyparty is a lightweight file server and media streamer that runs as a single Python binary. |