{"id": "authentication:authentication-root", "page": "authentication", "ref": "authentication-root", "title": "Using the \"root\" actor", "content": "Datasette currently leaves almost all forms of authentication to plugins -  datasette-auth-github  for example. \n                 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. \n                 To sign in as root, start Datasette using the  --root  command-line option, like this: \n                 datasette --root \n                 http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/auth-token?token=786fc524e0199d70dc9a581d851f466244e114ca92f33aa3b42a139e9388daa7\nINFO:     Started server process [25801]\nINFO:     Waiting for application startup.\nINFO:     Application startup complete.\nINFO:     Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:8001 (Press CTRL+C to quit) \n                 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: \n                 {\n    \"id\": \"root\"\n}", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Authentication and permissions\", \"Actors\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-github\", \"label\": \"datasette-auth-github\"}]"}