Hello ! I found two horribles bugs with Plex home so i came to report it. I don’t know if it’s the good section.
- When you login in an Android/PMP/some others app you are logged in at admin user without even asking you password. It sucks.
- If you choose something in option language : https://puu.sh/v1IYj/4f0c906870.png
It only work on the admin user. I don’t even know why this option is serverside.
Examples :
On admin user : https://puu.sh/v2hTs/3492c5a698.png
On my user : https://puu.sh/v2hUA/699cf2f16c.png
Thanks in advance !
@Gianni420 said:
Hello ! I found two horribles bugs with Plex home so i came to report it. I don’t know if it’s the good section.
- When you login in an Android/PMP/some others app you are logged in at admin user without even asking you password. It sucks.
Thanks in advance !
You need to set a PIN on your admin account.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/203815766-What-is-Plex-Home-
Members of a Plex Home can have a PIN code set on their account. When set, it means that the code must be entered when switching to that account in a supported Plex App. For instance, parents may wish to put a PIN on their account so that their children can’t switch to the parent account.
You set it via plex.tv and your account settings (where you also set language for your user).
Do you have Automatically Sign In enabled?
This would bypass the prompt for a PIN
@hthighway said:
Do you have Automatically Sign In enabled?
This would bypass the prompt for a PIN
Nope. It isn’t activated.
Just to make sure, you have gone into the setting of Plex Media Player and made sure Automatically Sign In isn’t enabled, and not in plex.tv/web as the one has no effect on the other
This is actually intended. I believe OP is referring to when an app is first used and asks for the username/email and password or the link code. The username/email and password is for the admin user so it will ALWAYS take you into the admin user without asking for the PIN. When using the link code, it will ALWAYS take you to the user that is logged into plex.tv when you enter that code. There is no way around this. Since you are logging in with the admin credentials, showing the user selection or asking for the PIN is just an extra unnecessary step. Keep in mind, if someone knows your username/email and password, they can remove your PIN so asking for the PIN is not really security.
If you don’t want others to use your account, don’t give them your username/email and password. Let them create regular Plex accounts, that way they can log in with their own credentials and not gain access to your account.
Ah, I was assuming (bad on my part) that the admin was skipping the PIN screen every time, not just the first login
@MovieFan.Plex said:
This is actually intended. I believe OP is referring to when an app is first used and asks for the username/email and password or the link code. The username/email and password is for the admin user so it will ALWAYS take you into the admin user without asking for the PIN. When using the link code, it will ALWAYS take you to the user that is logged into plex.tv when you enter that code. There is no way around this. Since you are logging in with the admin credentials, showing the user selection or asking for the PIN is just an extra unnecessary step. Keep in mind, if someone knows your username/email and password, they can remove your PIN so asking for the PIN is not really security.
If you don’t want others to use your account, don’t give them your username/email and password. Let them create regular Plex accounts, that way they can log in with their own credentials and not gain access to your account.
Hello and thanks for the reply.
I don’t really agree with this. Someone can log himself as admin but don’t want to be on admin user. Some people on my Plex Home are confused the first time they use an app that they are on the admin user.
If you could do an option it would be very nice
Do you have an idea for the second problem ? (the subtiles one)
@Gianni420 said:
I don’t really agree with this. Someone can log himself as admin but don’t want to be on admin user. Some people on my Plex Home are confused the first time they use an app that they are on the admin user.
Can you explain why you would log in as the admin but not want to use the admin account?
Do you have an idea for the second problem ? (the subtiles one)
Sorry, this can’t be done for managed users. A UI hasn’t been created to allow for this. It’s possible by manually editing the Plex database. A easier alternative would be to stop using managed users and create regular user accounts. The languages settings can then be easily changed.
@MovieFan.Plex said:
@Gianni420 said:
I don’t really agree with this. Someone can log himself as admin but don’t want to be on admin user. Some people on my Plex Home are confused the first time they use an app that they are on the admin user.
Can you explain why you would log in as the admin but not want to use the admin account?
Do you have an idea for the second problem ? (the subtiles one)
Sorry, this can’t be done for managed users. A UI hasn’t been created to allow for this. It’s possible by manually editing the Plex database. A easier alternative would be to stop using managed users and create regular user accounts. The languages settings can then be easily changed.
Thanks for the reply !
“Can you explain why you would log in as the admin but not want to use the admin account?”
Some people on my Plex home aren’t the admin user but they have the plex logins. So then why they would to be logged in on the admin user ? It should just ask you a pin since there multiple users on the account. Or a simple option to turn it on/off.
And do you have a tutorial to edit the plex database ?
Ok so i tested something :
I stopped plex
I’ve come into : /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases
Grabbed “com.plexapp.plugins.library.db”,openned it via SQLite Browser,i modified languages : https://puu.sh/v9CX2/aeea8863bc.png
Reinjected it on Plex,restarted Plex and it doesn’t work
@Gianni420 said:
Ok so i tested something :
I stopped plex
I’ve come into : /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases
Grabbed “com.plexapp.plugins.library.db”,openned it via SQLite Browser,i modified languages : https://puu.sh/v9CX2/aeea8863bc.png
Reinjected it on Plex,restarted Plex and it doesn’t work
If you’re going that route take a look at these instructions:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/266222/how-to-guide-setting-default-language-for-audio-track-subtitles-on-managed-accounts-e-g-guest
@hthighway said:
@Gianni420 said:
Ok so i tested something :
I stopped plex
I’ve come into : /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases
Grabbed “com.plexapp.plugins.library.db”,openned it via SQLite Browser,i modified languages : https://puu.sh/v9CX2/aeea8863bc.png
Reinjected it on Plex,restarted Plex and it doesn’t work
If you’re going that route take a look at these instructions:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/266222/how-to-guide-setting-default-language-for-audio-track-subtitles-on-managed-accounts-e-g-guest
Ok i followed it but it’s strange as hell. It work on every user but on mine it get reverted at every launch.
Thanks btw
EDIT : I deleted my user & created an other and now it work.
