# Nix: Authenticated Fetches from GitLab - Reading about Related Work

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-authenticated-fetches-from-gitlab-reading-about-related-work/35708
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [November 19, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-authenticated-fetches-from-gitlab-reading-about-related-work/35708 "2023-11-19T14:53:18Z")
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### Author: ![kolloch](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/kolloch/32/2383_2.png) [@kolloch](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/kolloch)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-authenticated-fetches-from-gitlab-reading-about-related-work/35708/1 "2023-11-19T14:53:19Z")

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I discussed wanting to fetch private artifacts from GitLab at $work with @Ericson2314 and he gave me some pointers about current ideas!

I wanted to take notes and write down how these might help with my plight (or not) without polluting the existing issues too much (I added some questions).

[https://blog.eigenvalue.net/2023-nix-fetch-with-authentication/](https://blog.eigenvalue.net/2023-nix-fetch-with-authentication/)

Tell me what you think and if I should think about other solutions.

So far, my favorite short-term solution would be something as I described in [Peter Kolloch - Blog - Nix in the Enterprise: AWS S3 Store Authentication](https://blog.eigenvalue.net/2023-nix-s3-store-authentication/) (skip ahead to “User-friendly Pragmatic Solution”) but long-term we can definitely do even better 🙂

[edit] the second link was the same as the first at first by mistake