diff --git a/Dockerfile.runtime b/Dockerfile.runtime
index c6eeb48..46e108c 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.runtime
+++ b/Dockerfile.runtime
@@ -21,6 +21,37 @@ RUN apt-get update \
  && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends "jellyfin-web=10.11.6+deb12" \
  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
+# ── Plugin stage ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Download and verify the auth plugins, unpacked into versioned dirs baked into
+# the image and synced into /config/plugins at start (docker-entrypoint.sh).
+# Versions are the newest each plugin publishes whose targetAbi <= the pinned
+# Jellyfin server version (10.11.6):
+#   LDAP Authentication 22.0.0.0  targetAbi 10.11.2.0  (v23 needs 10.11.9)
+#   SSO Authentication  4.0.0.4   targetAbi 10.11.0.0
+# sha256 pins match each release's published .sha256 asset for reproducibility.
+FROM --platform=linux/amd64 debian:bookworm-slim AS plugins
+
+RUN apt-get update \
+ && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl ca-certificates unzip \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ARG LDAP_URL=https://repo.jellyfin.org/files/plugin/ldap-authentication/ldap-authentication_22.0.0.0.zip
+ARG LDAP_SHA256=c2386c001be439c9946280a02d62610f29e325d4094e83bd31221de3f7aa20ae
+ARG SSO_URL=https://github.com/9p4/jellyfin-plugin-sso/releases/download/v4.0.0.4/sso-authentication_4.0.0.4.zip
+ARG SSO_SHA256=c09f16ba31059a434ddd7f811e4f9608d4b4c4514cc80a5bf1ca33bee61e1107
+
+WORKDIR /plugins
+RUN set -eu; \
+    curl -fsSL "$LDAP_URL" -o ldap.zip; \
+    echo "$LDAP_SHA256  ldap.zip" | sha256sum -c -; \
+    mkdir -p "LDAP Authentication_22.0.0.0"; \
+    unzip -oq ldap.zip -d "LDAP Authentication_22.0.0.0"; \
+    curl -fsSL "$SSO_URL" -o sso.zip; \
+    echo "$SSO_SHA256  sso.zip" | sha256sum -c -; \
+    mkdir -p "SSO Authentication_4.0.0.4"; \
+    unzip -oq sso.zip -d "SSO Authentication_4.0.0.4"; \
+    rm -f ldap.zip sso.zip
+
 # ── Runtime stage ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 # .NET 9 runtime: matches the SDK 9.0 publish step (framework-dependent), so the
 # app's required Microsoft.NETCore.App 9.0 is present. Keep in lockstep with the
@@ -42,6 +73,9 @@ WORKDIR /jellyfin
 COPY publish-output/ .
 # jellyfin-web client assets from the webclient stage.
 COPY --from=webclient /usr/share/jellyfin/web ./jellyfin-web/
+# Baked auth plugins; docker-entrypoint.sh syncs these into /config/plugins.
+COPY --from=plugins /plugins /usr/share/jellyfin/plugins-baked
+COPY --chmod=0755 docker-entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh
 
 # Jellyfin default ports
 EXPOSE 8096
@@ -54,7 +88,4 @@ ENV JELLYFIN_DATA_DIR=/config \
     JELLYFIN_CACHE_DIR=/cache \
     JELLYFIN_LOG_DIR=/config/log
 
-ENTRYPOINT ["./jellyfin", \
-            "--datadir", "/config", \
-            "--cachedir", "/cache", \
-            "--webdir", "/jellyfin/jellyfin-web"]
+ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh"]
diff --git a/docker-entrypoint.sh b/docker-entrypoint.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c7e85b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-entrypoint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Sync image-baked plugins into the /config (datadir) plugins directory on every
+# start. /config is a PVC that overlays the image, so plugins baked into the
+# image are invisible until copied in here. Removing any existing versioned dir
+# of the same plugin first lets the image version win across restarts/downgrades.
+set -eu
+
+BAKED_DIR=/usr/share/jellyfin/plugins-baked
+PLUGIN_DIR=/config/plugins
+
+if [ -d "$BAKED_DIR" ]; then
+  mkdir -p "$PLUGIN_DIR"
+  for src in "$BAKED_DIR"/*; do
+    [ -d "$src" ] || continue
+    name=$(basename "$src")   # e.g. "LDAP Authentication_22.0.0.0"
+    base=${name%_*}           # plugin name without the trailing _<version>
+    for existing in "$PLUGIN_DIR/$base"_*; do
+      [ -e "$existing" ] && rm -rf "$existing"
+    done
+    rm -rf "$PLUGIN_DIR/$name"
+    cp -a "$src" "$PLUGIN_DIR/$name"
+  done
+fi
+
+exec ./jellyfin \
+  --datadir /config \
+  --cachedir /cache \
+  --webdir /jellyfin/jellyfin-web \
+  "$@"