Jellyfin's UserManager constructor-injects every IAuthenticationProvider, so
building IUserManager forced SharedAccountAuthenticationProvider to be built
first. That provider eagerly required IGroupService and IDynamicGroupService,
both of which need IUserManager, and the container refused to start the server
with "a circular dependency was detected".
Take the two group services as Lazy<T> and dereference them at authentication
time instead. Nobody can log in before the host is up, so the deferred lookup
is always safe. Microsoft's container has no built-in Lazy<T> support, hence
the explicit factory registrations.
The accompanying test builds the service graph through a stand-in that mimics
UserManager's constructor shape and validates it on build, so a reintroduced
cycle fails in CI rather than at server startup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the plugin template with a working plugin that lets several
users share one viewing account while keeping their individual watched
lists accurate.
Three pieces:
- Auto-creating groups. Logging in as "alice+bob" with any named
member's own password provisions the shared account and signs you in.
Verified against 10.11.5: AuthenticateUser offers unmatched usernames
to every enabled provider and re-queries afterwards, which is the hook
this relies on. Gated on a real member password so knowing two
usernames is not enough to create an account.
- Multi-password authentication. IRequiresResolvedUser hands us the
resolved shared account; each member's live stored hash is checked via
ICryptoProvider.Verify. Deliberately avoids re-entering
UserManager.AuthenticateUser, which would trip every member's
failed-attempt counter whenever a different member's password matched.
- One-way played-state sync. Shared account to members only, filtered to
PlaybackFinished/TogglePlayed/Import so playback progress ticks are
ignored. No loop guard needed: member writes carry a non-shared id.
Membership is stored as user IDs rather than re-parsed from the username,
so shared accounts can be renamed freely. The +/name collision resolves
itself because Jellyfin only consults the plugin when no local user
matches the typed name.
Targets Jellyfin 10.11.x / net9.0. Adds Gitea CI (test, build, release),
a builder image, and 34 tests covering the auth and sync rules.