Another security breach by Plex. This is ridiculous. Authentication should should come from the server without involvement of Plex.tv which evidently and categorically can’t be trusted to keep their house in order.
tom80H
September 10, 2025, 4:47am
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There’s already existing suggestions on this topic. Please comment/vote in those in order to help avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes.
An option to use local authentication (i.e. LDAP or local users) would be ideal for those wanting to provide remote access to friends/family without providing remote access to plex admins (this is disclosed in the myplex description). Some folks simply want more control over remote access without granting ultimate access to unknown people. A separate landing page for LDAP user login would be cool. Leveraging existing systems that provide user authentication would reduce needed code overhead.
I would like to see a local authentication server built into Plex that would perform a couple functions:
Mirrors the functionality of plex.tv for authentication purposes.
Replicates from Plex.tv only the account data needed for our own PMS server (main account and friends).
This service should be locked down so it is not manageable locally, its only source of data should be official replication of applicable accounts from Plex.tv.
So, now when a local authentication request is perfo…
Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of your suggestion, I’ll close this thread as a duplicate.
tom80H
September 15, 2025, 8:53am
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2025 clean-up: duplicate(s)
