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sso

sso, aka S.S.Octopus, aka octoboi, is a single sign-on solution for securing internal services

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

sso, aka S.S.Octopus, aka octoboi, is a single sign-on solution for securing internal services

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-08-23 15:54:53 UTC to 2026-03-12 17:29:32 UTC.

02462018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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0xbadcafebee·Mar 10, 2021
However, Authelia... is not an OAuth or OpenID Connect provider yet (planned in the roadmap) is not a SAML provider yet. does not support authentication against an OAuth or OpenID Connect provider yet. does not support authentication against a SAML provider yet. does not support using hardware devices as single factor. does not provide a PAM module yet. oauth2_proxy is a great tool that lets you create a transparent OAuth proxy to provide SSO for any internal service. Protect an entire subdomain of services using one identity provider! Guides exist for integrating it with K8s, but luckily it's just a binary so you can protect non-K8s services with it too. It's also super easy to deploy, as you can configure the whole thing with just environment variables, or a config file. The docs are decent too. https://github.
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com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy There's also S.S.Octopus, and Pomerium. https://github.com/buzzfeed/sso https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium They all have different OAuth providers, so check them each out to see which one works with your identity provider. (GitHub OAuth + SSO makes using these a no-brainer) For just SAML, there's saml-auth-proxy, though I haven't looked into it much. https://github.com/itzg/saml-auth-proxy
In Authelia is an open-source authentication/authorization server with 2FA/SSO

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