Hey i am running into the following issue.
I have a plexserver with a MainUser and 2 local users, UserA and UserB.
Everytime UserA or UserB logs in they are automatically logged in with the MainUser account and they skipped the PIN question. This of course only happens if they login into the server with a new device or new Incognito Window/New browser.
Is there a way to FORCE the PIN question after successful login?
So you have Plex Home, MainUser is admin and UserA and B are managed one, with PIN enabled right?
Managed users can’t sign in with new device. Have you enabled Authentication for local network access?
Managed Users have to use for the first time MainUsers name and pw and then manually switch user, in order to login
Ok, so they use your password to sign-in, then they switch user (switching from admin account does not require PIN) and then what?
That all works. The problem is when my two users, one is my 13 year old son, opens up an incognito window or connects with a new device and logs into the account he is directly logged into the MainUser account and has admin rights, which negates the feature of restricting libraries.
IMHO, when you login for the first time with a new device you should always land on the select user page, and not in the middle of the settings menu.
First of all, you should not give your admin password to anyone.
Set up PIN on each account. You do the initial sign-in on all the devices. You could also create a full Plex account for your UserA and B and invite them to Plex Home (they would do the sign-in on own devices).Then change the authentication settings.
Is there a way to create another local login for my server with a username and password when they browse to http://plex.local ?
I don’t understand why you trying to over complicate things. You should read the article I’ve linked you above.
Plex recognizes what is local and remote network (those settings can be adjusted if you have multiple networks for example).
By default, access from within the local network won’t require authentication.
That’s why you need to change authentication within local network. If your users are managed users, it means you are managing them too, so you do the setup and you provide the ready solution, that’s why after initial setup you are logged in.
Because you are admin, each time you log on certain device by using your PIN you can switch to any user without providing PIN.
Like I said you can also create a regular Plex accounts for those two users and invite them to your Plex Home - Differences from Regular Plex Accounts
thank you very much for your help.
Did it work for you the way you wanted?
bartlomiej
this configuration and these answers don’t work for me. the reason is simple, my kids are not in my house often and they are always messing something up on one of their many devices. one is in college. sometimes the others are with their mother. because of whatever they do, a re-login is needed with some regularity. i can’t be hundreds of miles away to sign them in.
as far as i see it, signing in to the account with username and password should be a first level of security that gets you nowhere other than to be prompted for a PIN, regardless of the device. then you should have to enter a PIN to get you into either the master user or a local user.
by giving my kids the account password it is only a matter of time before they erase something or change something that locks me out. because you don’t offer a way for independent login of a local user, administrative abilities should be walled behind a PIN, always.
@honu-family said:
by giving my kids the account password it is only a matter of time before they erase something or change something that locks me out. because you don’t offer a way for independent login of a local user, administrative abilities should be walled behind a PIN, always.
Don’t add users whom you don’t trust, into your Plex Home.
You can still share your server or parts of it with them, though:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/sections/200295083-Server-Sharing
That way they never get access to any administrative functions.
i trust my kids with everything but technology and my car. i want this to work like an itunes family plan. i get the whole friends thing. the family and local user thing should work differently is what i am saying. administrative functions should be walled off, otherwise what is the point of having local users? i don’t sign my kids into their phones or ipads, but i certainly want control over what they do, which is why i want local users, albeit with different functionality, rather than a separate account, that is not part of my paid plan.
If you set a PIN on your own user, then you can add the separate plex accounts of your kids into your Plex Home.
That way they use their own plex credentials when signing into their devices, but can still benefit from your Plex Pass.
this is exactly the behavior that i assumed, but for some reason it is not working.
@honu-family said:
this is exactly the behavior that i assumed, but for some reason it is not working.
What did you do so far?
As a first step, have you created separate plex.tv accounts for your kids?
if you are asking, do that have their own separate accounts, independent of mine, that require a username and password rather than a PIN? of course not. that would defeat the intent of (local) sub-accounts of my own paid account.
@honu-family said:
if you are asking, do that have their own separate accounts, independent of mine, that require a username and password rather than a PIN? of course not. that would defeat the intent of (local) sub-accounts of my own paid account.
No, it won’t.
If you invite these independent accounts into your Plex Home, they’ll get the benefits of your Plex Pass.
@“Bartlomiej Baraniec” said:
I don’t understand why you trying to over complicate things. You should read the article I’ve linked you above.
Plex recognizes what is local and remote network (those settings can be adjusted if you have multiple networks for example).By default, access from within the local network won’t require authentication.
That’s why you need to change authentication within local network. If your users are managed users, it means you are managing them too, so you do the setup and you provide the ready solution, that’s why after initial setup you are logged in.
Because you are admin, each time you log on certain device by using your PIN you can switch to any user without providing PIN.
Like I said you can also create a regular Plex accounts for those two users and invite them to your Plex Home - Differences from Regular Plex Accounts
Hi there,
I ran into some other issue ralated to it, and try get more info about it before I may open a new Topic.
My NAS is running elsewhere (access over the net, not local IP) and Plex Media Player on MacBook and Plex App on iPhone. Everything is latest stable patch (14 May, 2017).
So, I just engaged following, I had created 1 managed user besides the Admin (for testing purposes) - but when I open the Player-App on MacOS and being asked about the PIN to Admin I may skip it. I just need to start the mobile App (on the iPhone), log in to the MANAGED-USER (which has no PIN at all) and press the Home button. And I am logged in as the last logged in user.
Well, this may just apply to the “Fullscreen-TV-Mode”, not to the browser-like. Agreed, that the difference between Admin and Managed User is pretty low at the TV-Mode, but a PIN should be some sort of safety measurement and is not supposed to be skipped that easily. You can enter the Admin-page just by accident.
Or am I still on the wrong side of seeing things right?
