# Yatse can't authenticate to jellyfin

**URL:** <https://community.yatse.tv/t/yatse-cant-authenticate-to-jellyfin/5253>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 18, 2026, 1:45am UTC](https://community.yatse.tv/t/yatse-cant-authenticate-to-jellyfin/5253 "2026-03-18T01:45:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![marlop342](https://community.yatse.tv/user_avatar/community.yatse.tv/marlop342/32/3937_2.png) [@marlop342](https://community.yatse.tv/u/marlop342)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2026, 1:45am UTC](https://community.yatse.tv/t/yatse-cant-authenticate-to-jellyfin/5253/1 "2026-03-18T01:45:23Z")

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**Issue description** : Yatse is unable to authenticate to Jellyfin because the legacy/deprecated auth methods are disabled by using

```auto
<EnableLegacyAuthorization>false</EnableLegacyAuthorization>

```

in system.xml

**Logs** :

yatse: [debug.log](https://community.yatse.tv/uploads/short-url/wEsK4Qg1ZAUzjpHiY3538JpX1Qo.log) (15.4 KB)

Jellyfin: [log\_20260317.log](https://community.yatse.tv/uploads/short-url/xlfXW9dz7v2S6UjzVjO4Meje50q.log) (26.2 KB)

**Screenshots** :

**Additional information** :

The domain has be sanitized in the logs.

The logs are only for the failure with `<EnableLegacyAuthorization>false</EnableLegacyAuthorization>` when I change it to true everything works fine so I didn’t add logs of that.

Nightly and the next release (10.12) will default that option to false and the one after that (10.13) will remove the deprecated methods: [[10.12] Default EnableLegacyAuthorization=false breaks Jellyseerr authentication · Issue #15962 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/15962#issuecomment-3715603585)

Jellyfin auth methods and their deprecation status: [Jellyfin API Authorization · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/nielsvanvelzen/ea047d9028f676185832e51ffaf12a6f)

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I would like to keep the legacy/deprecated methods disabled (Yatse is the only thing that is broken for me right now with those disabled), is there any timeline for moving to a non deprecated auth method?