Local User Password reset via email

[fricelander 10]

54 minutes ago, nodiaque said:

Why not just put openLDAP?

I'm surprise LDAP is supporte by Emby. According to the dev reply, reason for not putting smtp email password is because not everyone can use it. How many user have LDAP at home? How many emby user use LDAP? Talk about a feature used by the least...

Agree 100%

It's an official plugin but still probably less useful than SMTP unless you don't wanna implement smtp then you push people to use LDAP ...

1 hour ago, KolbyG said:

There are a few options out there. I played with this one yesterday:

https://www.manageengine.com/products/self-service-password/

Free for 50 users. Pretty easy to setup if you already have the infra to support it. Seems to work well enough. Setup is fully automated for users, (it pulls the maill attribute from AD and uses that to send a verification code). Then I modified the Emby login page to add a link to this and removed the regular "forgot password" link.

I'm gonna look into it, otherwise I've checked PWM, it's a LDAP password self service ...

[ebr 16169]

5 hours ago, nodiaque said:

I'm surprise LDAP is supporte by Emby. According to the dev reply, reason for not putting smtp email password is because not everyone can use it. How many user have LDAP at home? How many emby user use LDAP? Talk about a feature used by the least...

That's a very different situation.  LDAP is a totally optional feature that not many use whereas password recovery is a critical component everyone may need. 

[nodiaque 62]

Well, we are talking about having the option to use SMTP as a reset, not make it mandatory and discontinued the other option. 

But your second statement make it even worst. Password reset is critical VS LDAP so have come LDAP be seen as something that need to be developed and supported but not this? 

 

If only emby was still open source, the community would have code that feature years already. It's not something we can do via plugins only. 

Edited November 11, 2025 by nodiaque

[fricelander 10]

4 hours ago, ebr said:

That's a very different situation.  LDAP is a totally optional feature that not many use whereas password recovery is a critical component everyone may need. 

You're just giving the main reason why this feature (self service password reset via smtp) should have been implemented years ago, therefore way before LDAP support...

Edited November 11, 2025 by fricelander

[darkassassin07 652]

8 hours ago, ebr said:

password recovery is a critical component everyone may need. 

Then please improve it for everyones sake.

 

If SMTP failing for whatever reason is a concern, you can always have it use the current system simultaneously: notify the user that they should contact their server administrator if they have not received a password reset email. For administrators resetting their passwords, send reset instructions via email while also writing them to the usual file on the server, in case that email isn't received, then notify the user they can find instructions in either place.

[fricelander 10]

3 hours ago, darkassassin07 said:

Then please improve it for everyones sake.

 

If SMTP failing for whatever reason is a concern, you can always have it use the current system simultaneously: notify the user that they should contact their server administrator if they have not received a password reset email. For administrators resetting their passwords, send reset instructions via email while also writing them to the usual file on the server, in case that email isn't received, then notify the user they can find instructions in either place.

Yes and actually if this feature is only available for users it's ok, admin we can still go with the usual file

[Xeyk 3]

On 9/26/2025 at 1:21 PM, Luke said:

Even if it helped the majority but not all, that would be a win. We are aware that this is a pain point and we want to improve it.  We're just trying to think a little more broadly and come up with something that would help a larger percentage of servers.

We are coming up on 3 years since this request was proposed by the OP. That seems long enough to "think a little more broadly" and admit that no use-case will cover ALL Emby users, and may not even cover a majority of Emby users, but it will cover the ones that have the knowledge to enter SMTP server information into some fields, which I would argue would be a significant portion of the userbase. Most of us host our servers in homelabs, so know how to tinker with the technical. 

I'm not sure why we're stuck on paralysis by analysis for this one particular issue, which is fundamental to many of us for a service we host and share with family/friends. If someone wants it bad enough, they will figure out the technical aspects to get an SMTP connection working, which is a trivial task with many modern mail hosting services. 

[nodiaque 62]

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