Because it’s already a proposed feature on their feature voting website. In fact It’s been one of the top voted features for the last 7 years straight. It’s at this point the most often talked about drawback of Jellyfin and biggest stated reason why people won’t switch away from Plex. It’s been so long that the SSO plugin has been archived because the maintainer only made it on a temporary basis and he was tired of maintaining it, likely because it’s only taken the pressure off of the Jellyfin team to implement native SSO because folks like you like to point to it as a solution to the problem.
Plugins for SSO and OIDC are not a solution as they will only work with the web clients, so that’s a non-starter.
Jellyfin can blame it on the tech debt all they want but implementing it really wouldn’t be that hard, they just haven’t prioritized it, simple as.
This sounds lile you are very knowledgable about it.
Why not propose a dev-draft or propose a feature on their feature voting website?
Because it’s already a proposed feature on their feature voting website. In fact It’s been one of the top voted features for the last 7 years straight. It’s at this point the most often talked about drawback of Jellyfin and biggest stated reason why people won’t switch away from Plex. It’s been so long that the SSO plugin has been archived because the maintainer only made it on a temporary basis and he was tired of maintaining it, likely because it’s only taken the pressure off of the Jellyfin team to implement native SSO because folks like you like to point to it as a solution to the problem.