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 gr…

Is not true, plenty of us could still enjoy Plex.. but not all of us, my plex server is not local to anyone, it's in a data center... so short of begging one of the firewall guys to set up a temporary VPN so I could use it "locally" all *MY* media was unavailable I love plex, I just don't love th…

but not all of us, Hence the reason I said "plenty of us". The post i was responding to said the Entire Customer base experiences an outage. which is simply not true. But interesting that you are ok relying on a remote server to house your Plex Server when one guy with a wayward tree tr…

not likely, our data center has multiple redundant fibers going in different directions, redundant routers with with redundant mid-layer routers and redundant switches, multiple generators, battery backup systems etc etc along with multiple power drops from the power company, at home I have cable wi…

Its 2016, Can we not let users decide what authentication method works for their setup? I would like to see LDAP support for Plex for SSO - Huge, everything else in my home network syncs with my LDAP server. One password to remember, easy to reset for users. One place for security settings and cont…

Making this an option would not force everyone to it, build in the added functionality, leave plex.tv auth as an option. But also allow those willing and able to setup an LDAP/AD instance and easy central management location. This would probably also make Plex much more attractive to larger organi…

Please, don’t ignore this more than reasonable feature request. Me and plenty of others I know have all kinds of services (mail/cloud/streaming/wiki…) working with LDAP authentication and it works great. Plex is wonderful service and it literally deserves SSO support. I will buy lifetime Plex Pass t…

Reviving this, although with how much plex has been pushing their own server based auth, I doubt they’ll want to introduce a reason to reduce telemetry gathering… LDAP is amazing, adding it as an OPTION, (not the only option!) would be fantastic. Emby is looking more appealing by the day…

I am somewhat furious that it’s not possible for Plex to work without being slaved to their cloud login service… we need to be able to entirely self host, including user authentication, if we choose to.

I can only agree with the previously posted replies. I love plex for what it does right but the authentication via plex.tv bugs me every day. As said by others: I would pay to be able to authenticate my users via LDAP. It would just be an option, not the default. The Possibility to authenticate to m…

There may be a better solution, I run Emby Media and I love it. I am giving Plex a try to see which I like best. Emby does give the option to use Active Directory/LDAP. I came to this page looking for a way to setup LDAP but it seems like that isn’t a feature at the moment. I guess my Emby setup ha…

Feature Request: LDAP Authentication (optional local authentication)

Feature Suggestions

tom80H July 18, 2026, 10:25pm 42

No, that’s not right and not how it works.

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Authentication without Plex.tv Feature Suggestions	1	57	September 10, 2025
[Feature-Request] Built in local authentication server (prevent plex.tv outage) Feature Suggestions account	91	5827	July 17, 2026
Add the ability to use other identity providers to plex Feature Suggestions	1	228	December 16, 2022
LDAP Integration Feature Suggestions	0	287	August 29, 2017
Full featured (normal?) user accounts Feature Suggestions managed-accounts , account	3	254	October 15, 2021

Feature Request: LDAP Authentication (optional local authentication)

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