Well as it's unlikely that this is going to be added any time soon @demonspork   Here are some on the fly sed commands to patch the nginx conf file   Create a htpasswd file in /boot/config with a valud basic authentication cp /boot/config/htpasswd /etc/nginx/basic sed -i 's%return 302 \$scheme:\/\/\$http_host\/login;%# return 302 \$scheme:\/\/\$http_host\/login;%' /etc/nginx/conf.d/emhttp-servers.conf sed -i '/^auth_request\ \/auth_request.php;/a auth_basic "Unraid";\naut