Gotosocial: Admin interface no authentication

[joeldebruijn]

What type of hardware are you using: VPS bought online
What YunoHost version are you running: 12.0.9.1 (stable)
What app is this about: GoToSocial

Describe your issue

I have read these (among others mentioning GoToSocial):

GoToSocial Access to Admin Panel

My YunoHost server Hardware: Old laptop YunoHost version: 11.2.3 (stable) I have access to my server : through the webadmin Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ? : no Description of my issue Hi All, and thanks for your great efforts in Yunohost. I’m hosting my own GoToSocial instance (v. 0.11) and I’m trying to access the GTS admin panel via the https://fedi.aroundthemilkyway.nohost.me/admin page. Once I enter my log-in creden…

I added 2 tags, but could use one for “GoToSocial” in particular, which doesnt exist at the moment.

Context:

• Installed clean OS on VPS (Debian 12 64bit)
• Installed Yunohost
• Installed GTS as first app with first GTS user (different username / pw, so its not a Yunohost user)
• Changed nothing in config panel
• Browsed to t.joeldebruijn.nl - GoToSocial and entered the user credentials which gave:

Unauthorized: password/email combination was incorrect: If you arrived at this error during a sign in/oauth flow, please try clearing your session cookies and signing in again; if problems persist, make sure you’re using the correct credentials

• Did the same from a private browser session, same result.

• Browsed to SuperSeriousBusiness GoToSocial - GoToSocial and got a “FETCH_ERROR: TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.Dismiss” when entering the instance url

• SSH to server and tried to look at config.yaml in /var/www and got “access denied”

Sidenote:
I worked with a broken Pleroma package for nearly two years and with Debian 12 I just took the ‘scorched earth’ route, erase server and install something else from scratch.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Share relevant logs or error messages

Lets Encrypt in the domain: https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/aduhogoxud

Updated config for the domain (turned of email): https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/udinutarep

Installing GoToSocial: https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/vufesitezo

There I saw this line:
2024-12-28 09:43:45,628: DEBUG - + ynh_app_setting_set --key=admin --value=me
2024-12-28 09:43:45,716: DEBUG - + ynh_app_setting_set --key=email --value=gotosocial@domain2.tld

Is this domain2.tld wrong or a ‘pointer’ to the used one in reality to make this a pseudonym?

[ghose]

domain2.tld is a pseudonym.

my suggestion is, as you’re just installing, delete everything and start from scratch. You already have domain and certficate correctly installed, so it would take two minutes.

to access /var/www/gotosocial/ as root (ssh login in your ynh and then sudo su - )

then use CLI to promote your user as admin (just in case)

have you read gts-ynh package documentation? gotosocial_ynh/doc/ADMIN.md at master · YunoHost-Apps/gotosocial_ynh · GitHub (also available in ynh admin interface for this application)

manually delete all cookies in browser and review any browser add-on is not blocking token storage.

can you access as user to domain2.tld/user? so might be that user is not an admin so could not access domain2.tld/admin?

just my thoughts.

blow the thing and start again

I could not be more specific as this “unautorized credentials” usually happens (me) in mobile browser as I have very aggressive restrictions on its config.

[joeldebruijn]

Thnx, got it working!

• Used sudo su to get to /var/www/gotosocial/
• Used CLI to promote to admin

Then searched for more usermanagement options, found them here:
https://www.knthost.com/gotosocial/manage-gotosocial-users-on-the-command-line
Had to use the config flag also so started every command with:
./gotosocial --config-path config.yaml

• Changed the password to something else
• Confirmed mail so skipping email confirmation (I dont run mail via YH).
• Checked again et voila.

Thanks very much!