# I Added Break-Glass Accounts Before My Home Lab Locked Me Out

DevFeed: [I Added Break-Glass Accounts Before My Home Lab Locked Me Out](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/i-added-break-glass-accounts-before-my-home-lab-locked-me-out-17876.md>)

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Author: Brandon Lee

Published: 2026-09-14T12:16:15Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Virtualization Howto](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/virtualization-howto.md>)

Topics: [Homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/homelab.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Single sign-on (SSO)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sso.md>), [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [Amazon Route 53](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-route-53.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [container](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [dns](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dns.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [home-lab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/home-lab.md>), [home-server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/home-server.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [sso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sso.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains why a home lab that centralizes authentication through single sign-on can become inaccessible during an outage. It introduces "break glass" accounts as a recovery measure and emphasizes treating the authentication service as infrastructure with dependencies such as its application, database, certificates, networking, reverse proxy, and DNS.

## Source excerpt

One of the coolest things that you can do is centralize your authentication in the home lab. So, instead of having all kinds of separate usernames and passwords that are... The post I Added Break-Glass Accounts Before My Home Lab Locked Me Out appeared first on Virtualization Howto.