id,page,ref,title,content,breadcrumbs,references authentication:authentication-permissions-instance,authentication,authentication-permissions-instance,Access to an instance,"Here's how to restrict access to your entire Datasette instance to just the ""id"": ""root"" user: [[[cog from metadata_doc import config_example config_example(cog, """""" title: My private Datasette instance allow: id: root """""") ]]] [[[end]]] To deny access to all users, you can use ""allow"": false : [[[cog config_example(cog, """""" title: My entirely inaccessible instance allow: false """""") ]]] [[[end]]] One reason to do this is if you are using a Datasette plugin - such as datasette-permissions-sql - to control permissions instead.","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Access permissions in ""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-permissions-sql"", ""label"": ""datasette-permissions-sql""}]"