diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
 find_package(KF5Sonnet ${KF5_DEP_VERSION} REQUIRED)
 find_package(KF5IconThemes ${KF5_DEP_VERSION} REQUIRED)
 find_package(KF5SyntaxHighlighting ${KF5_DEP_VERSION} REQUIRED)
+find_package(KF5Auth ${KF5_DEP_VERSION} REQUIRED)
 
 # libgit2 integration, at least 0.22 with proper git_libgit2_init()
 find_package(LibGit2 "0.22.0")
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@
   KF5::ItemViews
   KF5::SonnetCore
   KF5::SyntaxHighlighting
+  KF5::AuthCore
   ${KTEXTEDITOR_OPTIONAL_LIBS}
 )