What is the best way to "lock down" your own account?

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I have had an unRaid server running Plex for probably a decade now, but I still feel like a newbie and the upcoming question will probably prove it. :slight_smile: I know this was probably a horrible practice, but my family and I are the only people leveraging the Plex server so they all had access to my Plex admin account. Well, after 10 years some data went missing and I suspect someone inadvertently deleted something via Plex.

To avoid this in the future I gave them all Friend accounts so that they could logon from their respective devices. But I’m wondering what the best practice is for myself? For all I know I could have been one the one to inadvertently deleted the data so I would like to keep myself from ever doing so. I would just send myself a friend request, but the admin account leverages my e-mail address so I would rather not do that. Does anyone know the best way to approach this? I’m assuming the admin account should remain reserved for only admin tasks…correct? If so, how should I set things up for a separate account so that I can also access my own Plex server, but with the restriction that I can’t delete anything?

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There is a server library setting to prevent deletion through the interface. If enabled only the admin account will have the option. Shared accounts never have the option

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with and without option in web app.

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if you have folks in your “plex Home” then I would also make sure to put an account pin on your account.

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Another option would be to give the user “plex” read-only access to the media directory. So if someone inadvertently deletes a file via the Plex interface thee server denies the action and you get a error message.

I do the file management (including deleting directories) on my Synology NAS web GUI only and not via Plex. I’ve give server users R/W permissions only if it’s absolutely necessary to prevent them from deleting files. And the trash bin is only visible to administrators so I can restore mistaken deleted files until the last day of the month (it empties trash bins at the 1st of the month at 12:00:00 am).

And last (but not least): don’t forget to create backups! :wink:

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Thanks for all the help! This is exactly what I needed.

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