# Access apps without being authenticated to umbrel

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/access-apps-without-being-authenticated-to-umbrel/9517>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [September 19, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/access-apps-without-being-authenticated-to-umbrel/9517 "2022-09-19T13:01:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Olwe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ea5d25/32.png) [@Olwe](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Olwe)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/access-apps-without-being-authenticated-to-umbrel/9517/1 "2022-09-19T13:01:07Z")

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Hello,  
I’d like to share services that I host to some friends but without the need to being authenticated to umbrel. I want to stay the only person that has access to the umbrel dashboard.

Is there a way to do that currently ?

Also I wanted to externally host the services through a reverse proxy hosted on umbrel OS. Is there an app that manage that ? Any security reasons why I should not do that ?

Thank you 🙏

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**Author:** ![Olwe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ea5d25/32.png) [@Olwe](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Olwe)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/access-apps-without-being-authenticated-to-umbrel/9517/2 "2022-09-19T21:15:08Z")

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I just [found documentation](https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps#advanced-configuration) on how to protect an app with umbrel authentication or not 👍 .

I’m still interested to have your opinions for the security part on opening an app to the whole internet.

Thanks