# Restrict users

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/restrict-users/134301>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** other-dev\
**Created:** [February 6, 2016, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/restrict-users/134301 "2016-02-06T10:39:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Br1cked](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/br1cked/32/17657_2.png) [@Br1cked](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Br1cked)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/restrict-users/134301/1 "2016-02-06T10:39:13Z")

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Can you add a Restrict user, to only allow 1 stream?  
I’ve seen, that some people share their plex accounts with family and friends.  
That would be a good feature, for us who pay to plexpass and dont want our stream servers getting raped by alot of bad people who share accounts 🙂

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**Author:** ![Bartlomiej\_Baraniec](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bartlomiej_baraniec/32/14531_2.png) [@Bartlomiej\_Baraniec](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Bartlomiej_Baraniec)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/restrict-users/134301/2 "2016-02-06T15:40:41Z")

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No you can’t do that at the moment. Share only with people you are trust and not bad ones who share accounts 🙂

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**Author:** ![Br1cked](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/br1cked/32/17657_2.png) [@Br1cked](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Br1cked)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/restrict-users/134301/3 "2016-02-06T21:08:43Z")

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I know i cant. Thats why i ask for the devs to look into it 😉

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**Author:** ![charlas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/charlas/32/3634_2.png) [@charlas](https://forums.plex.tv/u/charlas)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/restrict-users/134301/4 "2016-02-07T05:58:22Z")

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If you are using Windows as your server there is a work around, Plex Sentry, it’s a little involved to get setup (I’ve put together a quick guide somewhere in that thread)

> **[plexSentry (20160511 Update)](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/156041/plexsentry-20151218-update/p1)**
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> \[20160511 Update - Incremental\] -Added a key to the config file to account for secure only connections (a work around till i figure out a bug in auto detection) -Various little fixes I've built in over the past couple of months as I work on the big...

Will set limits on number of streams allowed by all of your users, also limits sync’s etc as well.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/restrict-users/134301/5 "2020-01-08T19:55:14Z")

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