# Users & Sharing - User Management

**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/users-sharing-user-management/761138
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Tags:** managed-accounts, server-synology
**Created:** [November 29, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/users-sharing-user-management/761138 "2021-11-29T23:20:24Z")
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### Author: ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/users-sharing-user-management/761138/2 "2021-11-29T23:50:06Z")

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There’s already a dedicated suggestion to assigning aliases for your shared users to better identify them.

> [@\[Implemented\] Alias instead of plex.tv usernames](https://forums.plex.tv/t/alias-instead-of-plex-tv-usernames/83502):
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> I guess this has always been the case but I never noticed before. &nbsp;The name PMS shows is the plex.tv username. &nbsp;For security reasons I had kept my plex.tv username as my email to make it harder for someone to hack my account by guessing an easier to use username. &nbsp;Now with fast user switching I created managed users for my family which has a nice friendly name, but my email sticks out like a sore thumb. &nbsp;I can change my username in plex.tv to show a friendlier name but that would bring up the se…

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As for the rest… isn’t that information already available on the server dashboard?  
[https://support.plex.tv/articles/200871837-status-and-dashboard/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200871837-status-and-dashboard/)

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