Calibre-Web Integration with Authentik

With my success yesterday integrating Tandoor Recipes with Authentik I want to keep the ball rolling and decide to see if I can get Calibre-Web integrated. A quick good search brought me upon Calibre-Web's documentation about LDAP Login. It starts by mentioning some additional packages and dependencies to do so. Then it dives right into "After a reboot". What was changing before the reboot? The installation of the packages and dependencies? So Calibre-Web's documentation seems a little confusing to me. Do I just install python-ldap and the go into the gui? That seems like what it is saying, but I don't feel 100% confident with this, and I don't feel like spinning up a test environment to test with. So instead I think I'll just take a checkpoint of CALIBRE-01 so I can roll it back if I mess things up.

Steps performed on CALIBRE-01

• sudo apt update
  • 20 packages can be upgraded
• sudo apt upgrade -y

Steps performed on HV-03 via Windows Admin Center

• Navigate to Virtual Machiens
• Select CALIBRE-01
• Created a checkpoint

Steps performed on CALIBRE-01

• sudo apt install build-essential
  • build-essential is already the newest version (12.9ubuntu3)
• sudo apt install python3-dev
  • python3-dev is already the newest version (3.10.6-1~22.04)
• sudo apt install libldap2-dev
• sudo apt install libsas12-dev
  • Error: Unable to locate package libsas12-dev

Typo, let's fix it.

• sudo apt install libsasl2-dev
• sudo apt install slapd
• sduo apt install ldap-utils
  • ldap-utils is already the newest version (2.5.16+dfsg-0ubuntu0.22.04.2)
• sudo apt install tox
• sudo apt install lcov
• sudo apt install valgrind
• sudo python -m pip install python-ldap
  • Command 'python' not found did you mean:
• sudo python3 -m pip install python-ldap

So I have everything installed now, I guess the next step would be a reboot?

• sudo reboot

Steps taken from Authentik Security

• Click on Admin Interface
• Click on the Appilcations header
• Click on Providers
• Click on Create
  • I select LDAP Provier
  • I click Next
  • Name: Calibre-Web-LDAP
  • Bind Flow: default-authentication-flow (Welcome to Authentik!)
  • Bind mode: Cached Binding
  • Search mode: Cached Querying
  • Base DN: DC=ldap,DC=goauthentik,DC=io
  • Certificate: authentik Self-Signed Certificate
  • Click on Finish
• Navigate to Applications
• Click on Create
  • Name: Calibre-Web
  • Slug: calibre-web
  • Provider: Calibre-Web-LDAP
  • I click on Create

Steps performed on Calibre-Web

Well the documentation says I should not see Flask_SimpleLDAP in the about page, which I don't....but I do see python-ldap. Hopefully the documentation is just out of date and not updated to the new package?

• I click on Admin
• I click on Edit Basic Configuration
• I click on Feature Configuration

Well there is no new Login Type option that has appeared in this menu. Do I need to install Flask_SimpleLDAP as well? Looks like that command would be:

Steps performed on CALIBRE-01

• sudo python3 -m pip install flask-simpleldap
  • Successfully installed flask-simpleldap-1.4.0
• sudo reboot

Steps performed on Calibre-Web

Well now I do have Flask_SimpleLDAP on the about page. That's one step closer right?

• I click on Admin
• I click on Edit Basic Configuration
• I click on Feature Configuration

I do now have the Login Type option. Yes! I've run out of time for today so I'm going to stop here before going any further with putting in the ldap settings.