id,page,ref,title,content,breadcrumbs,references authentication:authentication-root,authentication,authentication-root,"Using the ""root"" actor","Datasette currently leaves almost all forms of authentication to plugins - datasette-auth-github for example. The one exception is the ""root"" account, which you can sign into while using Datasette on your local machine. This provides access to a small number of debugging features. To sign in as root, start Datasette using the --root command-line option, like this: datasette --root http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/auth-token?token=786fc524e0199d70dc9a581d851f466244e114ca92f33aa3b42a139e9388daa7 INFO: Started server process [25801] INFO: Waiting for application startup. INFO: Application startup complete. INFO: Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:8001 (Press CTRL+C to quit) The URL on the first line includes a one-use token which can be used to sign in as the ""root"" actor in your browser. Click on that link and then visit http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/actor to confirm that you are authenticated as an actor that looks like this: { ""id"": ""root"" }","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Actors""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-github"", ""label"": ""datasette-auth-github""}]"