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Fast User Switching with Passwords


d21mike

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I have my Apple TV setup to 'Set Login as "me"'.  This works well.  I only have to enter my password 1 time.

 

However, when switching back and forth between users I have to enter my password each time for each user.  This is time consuming on a Apple TV even with using my iPhone to enter the password.

 

As you may know you can have multiple iTunes Accounts on the Apple TV with easy switching between them and not having to enter the password each time.

 

Is there anyway to enter my password one time and have auto login when "fast" switching between users?

 

For a local user I could change to no password and set the user to not allow remote access.  But if I want both remote and local access for my userid I need to have a password.

 

And when my grandkids come over I want the Kids userid for them so I need to switch back and forth for them.

 

 

So, like the SET LOGIN AS 'me' which seems to remember my password even when I close the app it would be good if it would also remember the password for other user profiles on the same Apple TV.

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Hi.  If this is a local server, you can use the EasyPIN feature but leave the PIN blank.  That will not require the password when on the local network.

 

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Hi.  If this is a local server, you can use the EasyPIN feature but leave the PIN blank.  That will not require the password when on the local network.

 

Passwords

 

Thanks @@ebr.  Yes, that will solve my problem.  I will test it.  What is your recommendation for Remote Only.  I share my library with my son and daughter-inlaw.  With Plex they just had 1 login to share.  But now with Emby they are thinking it wold be nice to have separate userid's for them as well as the kids.  So maybe 3 logins since they have more customizations.  But they would have to to login each time when they wanted to switch Profiles.  Especially a problem for the kids.  But since they are remote I really need each user to have a password.

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You could try giving them numeric passwords.

 

Yeah.  Definitely considered that.  And I allow them to change their own password so they could.  Just wanted to rule out the option to "Save Password for separate UserID's".

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