Emby Server Setup from Script

[jstruebel 1]

I've been using the work done by the team over at Turnkey Linux to setup my linux servers. I was thinking that it would be nice to create a mediaserver appliance based on Emby, but I've run into a difficulty that I'm not sure how to handle.

 

One of the philosophies of the Turnkey Linux project is that an appliance is ready-to-go after install. This means that it is setup with reasonable defaults and settings. Since default passwords are insecure, the project provides a mechanism to prompt the user to set passwords the first time it is booted through the inithooks package which is a combination of shell scripts and python scripts. The problem I am having is that I can't figure out how to reliably set the password for the default emby user in Emby nor how to setup defaults like default media paths from a script. The main issue I'm seeing is that Emby uses some type of hash to identify the users which I imagine could change for various installs and potentially usernames. Is there some way to do this through an API?

 

If it isn't currently possible, either through direct API or the web API, please consider this a feature request.

 

Thanks,
Jonathan