I wanted to start by saying I am not a fan of the forced username implementation.
I do not understand why a username needs to be unique if I am using it on my local network, playing local content.
Can we not have an admin account (like the email address that is registered with plex all these years perhaps), and then local users for setting library access, permissions etc.?
So now, the naming convention I have internally on my network needs to change because Plex deems it so!
A way around this forced move, is to give my original account a random unique name and consider it the âadminâ account only and then configure a new managed user to use as myself BUT this would require a way to transfer the watch next, progress etc. data to this new managed account.
@Plex, what do we do here? I canât get the name I want cause it is taken and I only watch local content and I have no way to transfer my profile data to a managed user!
@drzoidberg33 Awesome! thanks, that does what I am looking for. This field (Full Name) is not available on the Plex for Windows Application (hence me not seeing it this morning), only on the Web and Android apps.
All Profile fields should be the same across the apps imo.
The anger generated here is based in a lack of reasoning on your part.
I am sure that there is a resonable and good explanation behind it.
Please enlighten us!?
Undestanding your oppositions reasoning behind an action creates undestanding.
Undestanding helps create trust.
My user are unable to change his username!
The message is that the username is already in use!
Please explain how a user on my private network can have a duplicate I an unable to see as an administrator of my private Plex server???
On Disney channel all my users can have there own names!
On Amazon all my users can have theire own names!
On all the other streaming services all my users can have their own names!
Security should be based on an abitrery string of numbers, letters and special signs. Not on usernames or even e-mails.
This is 2010 technology.
As per drzoidbergâs response above⊠you (and your users) should be able to set their âFull Nameâ to their liking in their profile.
While youâre certainly the admin of your server, those users have accounts with Plex. If each of them opts to set their username to trekant thatâs obviously going to be an issueâŠ
Taanks tom80H.
Since all but two of my plex users are internal and managed accounts, the security issue of converting them to an account management on an external plex server is a major issue.
I could live with loosing the ability to see my movies externally in case of Plex going bankrupts, but having to depend on a server controlled by Plex for external user validation and with the security risk which I am unable to neither control nor audit is a major breach of privacy and loss of control.
I think youâre mistaken about that⊠the change itself should only apply to regular users. Managed users are part of your Plex account (and therefore authenticated as such).
That still allows them to set a own full name / nick name in their profile (e.g. if they donât like the managed user name you assigned to them) â but again: full name / nick name is not their username!
Help people discover your account ... I donât want anyone knowing or discovering my account in plex. The forum is one thing and my forum name is different to my plex account name which is also different to my eMail registered with plex.
So what does this mean and what is being planned for it ?
I think the concern is with the main account the managed accounts to linked to⊠why have cloud connectivity a requirement? It is an offline player and having now being forced to use a username is slightly annoying, made more so by the fact I am unable to use the name I have used for 10+ years on my internal network.
So far I had always been reading that to mean I can enter a friendly name so my friends recognize itâs my account (while that might not be the case with a cryptic account name)
Edit: same goes for myself⊠seeing regular first names seems more friendly when being âgreetedâ on the big screen
I am quite sure that this will generate a long list of usernames like:
PlexSuck
PlexIsAsecurityRisk
and etcâŠ
Personally I have regrettet my Lifelong membership account.
The featurelist are growing endlessly and have no validation on my part.
I still donât see the Plex server running as a service on my Windows server.
I still dont see any integration with Windows AD or other compatible user database.
I can still not remove my plex users ability to get search results from other sources!
With the current change, I have choosen to auto update the server and clients.
@tom80H I donât disagree with your second statement, it is nice having a username you enjoy greeting you when logging into plex.
The main issue is, why is this public-facing and if your friends can search this publicly, then so can anyone. These are device login accounts, not just some random forum or social media site, there is real risk here that seems to not have been considered.
We should have the option to have a cloud-connected or private offline account to use on our internal network. Plex is not a cloud console, it is hosted internally, so why the need for a cloud-connected login (analytics etc. can be scraped by other, anonymized methods).
Plex could go one step further and offer a SaaS or self-hosted options of Plex
For all I can see this is about how your account is seen to the friends with whom youâre sharing. I think youâre reading too much into the âdiscoverâ part⊠it says nowhere that the full name is visible to the public.
I get what youâre saying but Iâm not sure this is all linked to the current discussion.
I still donât get then why it has to be unique, if it is as you say used for private communications only?
the âFull Nameâ does not have to be unique (as far as I am aware), so why the username? You cannot log into plex using the username (as far as I am aware), you still need to use you email address, so what is the purpose of having 3 identity fields in one profile?
I think we need more information from @drzoidberg33 as to what the intention for these identifiers are if not for private-only use.
