diff --git a/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/api.py b/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/api.py
index 2931ac05..003f039f 100644
--- a/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/api.py
+++ b/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/api.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from fastapi import APIRouter
 from oasst_backend.api.v1 import (
     admin,
+    auth,
     frontend_messages,
     frontend_users,
     hugging_face,
@@ -23,3 +24,4 @@ api_router.include_router(stats.router, prefix="/stats", tags=["stats"])
 api_router.include_router(leaderboards.router, prefix="/leaderboards", tags=["leaderboards"])
 api_router.include_router(hugging_face.router, prefix="/hf", tags=["hugging_face"])
 api_router.include_router(admin.router, prefix="/admin", tags=["admin"])
+api_router.include_router(auth.router, prefix="/auth", tags=["auth"])
diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 0f91315e..dff8d14c 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ loguru==0.6.0
 numpy==1.22.4
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.5
 pydantic==1.9.1
+pyjwt
 python-dotenv==0.21.0
+redis
 scipy==1.8.1
 SQLAlchemy==1.4.41
 sqlmodel==0.0.8
diff --git a/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose.yaml
index 908457cd..60048763 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ services:
   # Use `docker compose up backend-dev --build --attach-dependencies` to start a database and work and the backend.
   backend-dev:
     image: sverrirab/sleep
-    depends_on: [db, adminer, redis, redis-insights]
+    depends_on: [db, adminer, redis, redis-insights, webdb, maildev]
 
   # Use `docker compose up frontend-dev --build --attach-dependencies` to start all services needed to work on the frontend.
   frontend-dev:
diff --git a/scripts/backend-development/run-local.sh b/scripts/backend-development/run-local.sh
index 7366cde6..f81362dd 100755
--- a/scripts/backend-development/run-local.sh
+++ b/scripts/backend-development/run-local.sh
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ export DEBUG_USE_SEED_DATA=True
 export DEBUG_SKIP_TOXICITY_CALCULATION=True
 export DEBUG_ALLOW_SELF_LABELING=True
 export DEBUG_SKIP_EMBEDDING_COMPUTATION=True
+export BACKEND_CORS_ORIGINS='["http://localhost:3000"]'
 
 uvicorn main:app --reload --port 8080 --host 0.0.0.0
 
diff --git a/website/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].ts b/website/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].ts
index 3d3dbaa4..af2cbd59 100644
--- a/website/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].ts
+++ b/website/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].ts
@@ -148,6 +148,17 @@ export const authOptions: AuthOptions = {
       }
     },
   },
+  cookies: {
+    sessionToken: {
+      name: `next-auth.session-token`,
+      options: {
+        httpOnly: true,
+        sameSite: "none",
+        path: "/",
+        secure: true,
+      },
+    },
+  },
   session: {
     strategy: "jwt",
   },
diff --git a/website/src/pages/dashboard.tsx b/website/src/pages/dashboard.tsx
index e0b8bba4..2739821b 100644
--- a/website/src/pages/dashboard.tsx
+++ b/website/src/pages/dashboard.tsx
@@ -7,9 +7,12 @@ import { TaskCategory } from "src/components/Tasks/TaskTypes";
 import { get } from "src/lib/api";
 import type { AvailableTasks, TaskType } from "src/types/Task";
 export { getDefaultStaticProps as getStaticProps } from "src/lib/default_static_props";
+import useSWR from "swr";
 import useSWRImmutable from "swr/immutable";
 
 const Dashboard = () => {
+  useSWR("http://localhost:8080/api/v1/auth/check", get);
+
   const { data } = useSWRImmutable<AvailableTasks>("/api/available_tasks", get);
 
   // TODO: show only these tasks: