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We're pleased to announce LDAP support for Emby Server, now supported by all Emby apps! Installation To setup LDAP, simply install the LDAP plugin from the Emby plugin catalog. This feature requires an active Emby Premiere subscription. Then head over to your LDAP plugin configuration and setup the plugin to connect to your LDAP server: Users are imported from LDAP as they sign into Emby. You can even set the default permissions for imported users: Important: Users marked as administrators in Emby will always sign into Emby using Emby authentication, not LDAP. This policy is designed to avoid situations where you could potentially become locked out of your Emby Server due to an LDAP problem. Let us know what you think and what improvements you'd like to see !

LDAP is a User Directory. You only have to maintain one list of users and use these users on multiple Applications to login. For example i have an email server, a cloud storage and emby. Once i create a user in the LDAP, this user can login with the same password, in the Email Account, in the CloudStorage and now into Emby as well. There is no need to create this user in the Emby Settings again. Want to change the password for one user in all 3 Applications? Just goto your ldap server, and change the password once! (EDIT: this is careless simplified ) If you dont have an LDAP Server, dont worry about the feature. Then you dont need it. If you curious and have money to burn and you are into closed source software try to use the microsoft Active Directory. Should be the easiest start. If you curious and you dont have money to burn start with linux and an openLdap Server and a lot of time. If you have no clue its not easy to get into it.