{"id": "settings:setting-secret", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-secret", "title": "Configuring the secret", "content": "Datasette uses a secret string to sign secure values such as cookies. \n             If you do not provide a secret, Datasette will create one when it starts up. This secret will reset every time the Datasette server restarts though, so things like authentication cookies and  API tokens  will not stay valid between restarts. \n             You can pass a secret to Datasette in two ways: with the  --secret  command-line option or by setting a  DATASETTE_SECRET  environment variable. \n             datasette mydb.db --secret=SECRET_VALUE_HERE \n             Or: \n             export DATASETTE_SECRET=SECRET_VALUE_HERE\ndatasette mydb.db \n             One way to generate a secure random secret is to use Python like this: \n             python3 -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_hex(32))'\ncdb19e94283a20f9d42cca50c5a4871c0aa07392db308755d60a1a5b9bb0fa52 \n             Plugin authors make use of this signing mechanism in their plugins using  .sign(value, namespace=\"default\")  and  .unsign(value, namespace=\"default\") .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"}