Feature suggestion: Option to disable web UI password about faktory HOT 6 CLOSED

I think the Web UI password is only required in production mode? For local development, you shouldn't need it at all.

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And since it's just HTTP Basic Auth, the browser should cache the credentials for future access.

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I think it's also required in development mode if a password is set but I'm not 100% sure (I definitely have gotten a password prompt in my development environment though I wonder if we set the mode incorrectly or something). But I guess we don't have to set a password in development at all so maybe that would simplify things?

Yeah the browser does cache it but it does seem to expire eventually, at least I seem to need to enter it more often than I would expect. And this might be specific to my setup, but with Firefox and with the 1password extension installed as a password manager, neither the browser nor 1password offers to save it.

Anyway, it's really only a minor inconvenience, but it would be nice if this was optional since people might use other security mechanisms in front of Faktory to secure the admin interface.

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Try FAKTORY_SKIP_PASSWORD=true

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Hmm okay, so that would allow us to disable the password in production, but I'm guessing that that's for both the worker protocol and the web UI right? I was thinking of just disabling it for the web UI but thinking about it further, in our case it may make sense to just use network security rules for the workers and disable the password altogether.

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Exactly, the skip option is there so users can opt into disabling faktory's internal security, and imply that they are going to handle auth some other way.

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