In short, I’d love to be able to require a password to switch a user’s account. AKA to keep the user (my 2 year old) in one specific local user. A ‘kid’s mode’ would be ideal, where she can’t leave the app unless we put in a password for her, but with screen pinning, just keeping the user account locked in would work.
I have a handful of local users at my house (for my wife, my mother-in-law when she comes over, etc, and one for my 2 year old daughter.)
My daughter’s account is loaded up with Disney movies, shows, etc. My wife and mother-in-law can watch whatever they’d like, and don’t want to use a password for their accounts.
I apologize in advance if this has been requested previously - I searched a bit in the feature voting and didn’t find this specific request.
How would you expect it to work so that your daughter has access without a password to her account, your MiL and wife have access without a password, but your daughter can’t access your wife or MiL’s accounts without needing a password? Either the accounts are secured or they are not. If they are using different devices you can save the PINs on the devices your daughter won’t have access to.
If you are hoping for some kind of ‘smart lock’ that would make it so that after switching to the daughter’s account a password is needed to switch back to an adult account, that would be the current PIN saving to the extent that once you log out of an adult’s account it would require the PIN to log back in. It does not however re-enable the ‘save my PIN’ option without going back into the settings to re-enable it if memory serves me correctly. I believe not auto-enabling that setting is the proper move by the Plex team as it makes sure your daughter doesn’t get in after you forget to switch accounts and close Plex.
If you want an option where you can log directly into Plex on one of the adult accounts, but the child account needs a password to escape you’ve got yourself in one of two scenarios. Either the adults will have to enter their passwords as frequently as they needed to from the current PIN implementation or your daughter can gain access to the adult accounts by simply closing and re-opening Plex. Being a 2 year old I’d imagine she clicks around frequently and would probably manage to do that on her own without any intention of escaping her child-friendly walled garden.
tl;dr
Like OttoKerner said, a feature very much like this is already in Plex. If you wanted it to work differently, I can’t think of a way to have both the lack of security and security you want at the same time.
My solution was to have a separate instance of PMS which only serves my child’s libraries. No way out of the walled garden at all then. Unfortunately Plex isn’t configurable enough to easily run two instances on one machine directly, I’m using virtual machines to run the separate instances on my single physical machine. Not sure this is a solution for everyone, but it works fine once it’s setup.
@OttoKerner and @Snives,
I think the whole point of the proposition was to require a PIN or password to switch between users while not requiring a PIN as long as the same user is logged in. I can certainly see a need for that in a Plex Home where a parent would log in a kid on a device (with PIN) and the kid then only being able to start the app and autologin without having to enter a PIN. Of course, if the kid accidentally logged out, the parent would have to log the kid in again.
This would actually make Managed Users useable as one could log in with the main plex account, switch to a Managed User (by entering PIN) and then not having to worry about the user/kid switching to another PIN-less Managed User.
@Alvinger said:
I think the whole point of the proposition was to require a PIN or password to switch between users while not requiring a PIN as long as the same user is logged in.
This already exists, it is called Auto-Login.
When this is activated in the preferencess of a client, it will remember the last logged-in user and will log in this user automatically upon the next app start.
@Alvinger said:
I think the whole point of the proposition was to require a PIN or password to switch between users while not requiring a PIN as long as the same user is logged in.
This already exists, it is called Auto-Login.
When this is activated in the preferencess of a client, it will remember the last logged-in user and will log in this user automatically upon the next app start.
@OttoKerner: no, Auto-login does not prevent you from switching user, it only logs you in. The functionality we’re looking for is “prevent log-out/switch from logged in user”
@Alvinger said:
I think the whole point of the proposition was to require a PIN or password to switch between users while not requiring a PIN as long as the same user is logged in.
This already exists, it is called Auto-Login.
When this is activated in the preferencess of a client, it will remember the last logged-in user and will log in this user automatically upon the next app start.
@OttoKerner: no, Auto-login does not prevent you from switching user, it only logs you in. The functionality we’re looking for is “prevent log-out/switch from logged in user”
This is really what I’m talking about - a Pin to prevent log-out or switching users. It’s what most Kids Mode apps provide to keep the youngsters from getting out.
