[Feature Proposal] True Managed Profiles (Netflix style Who's Watching)

[evynbaldwin]

Problem Statement
Jellyfin currently requires every person to have an entirely separate login setup by the server administrator. While this works for small setups, it creates significant burden and overhead for family and multi-household sharing:

• The admin must manually create every account.
• On shared devices, users must fully login and out, and while recent solutions exist, on most devices you still need to login to each account on that shared device.
• There is no concept of a shared account login, followed by a who's watching.

Proposed Feature
Core Behavior:

• An admin creates a shared household login
• Under that household account, the owner can create sub accounts for household members (kids, mom, dad)
• Each account should maintain its own watch history, ratings, favorites, etc.
• Accounts should also have pins

In essence this would be multi-tenancy

Why this is needed

• Part of the reason many can't make the switch from other platforms such as Plex to Jellyfin is due to these restrictions.
• Greatly reduces admin burden
• Greater control over how many screens a household can simultaneously have, potential allowing for greater resource control

Additional Note
I'd love to help build this out and interested in becoming a contributor to this project. Please let me know your thoughts on this, I am fully aware that this isn't an easy thing to slap together, and would take significant efforts to make happen. With enough planning I think executing this could convince many to move to this platform.

[Xiaoh-123]

Please make this happen. This feature and MFA for the "main" login have been the only gripes I've had with Jellyfin in the year I've been using it. Sharing with family and friends would benefit from the improved experience, because right now I have to choose between securing every account behind a 64 character password and no one will use the service because typing on a TV with a remote is a thing, or not having passwords at all on a publicly accessible server (VPNs are not a thing for older folks, and non-techies in general).

[Linux-oiD]

Related discussion in jellyfin-web: jellyfin/jellyfin-web#7059