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| settings:setting-secret | settings | setting-secret | Configuring the secret | Datasette uses a secret string to sign secure values such as cookies. 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. You can pass a secret to Datasette in two ways: with the --secret command-line option or by setting a DATASETTE_SECRET environment variable. datasette mydb.db --secret=SECRET_VALUE_HERE Or: export DATASETTE_SECRET=SECRET_VALUE_HERE datasette mydb.db One way to generate a secure random secret is to use Python like this: python3 -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_hex(32))' cdb19e94283a20f9d42cca50c5a4871c0aa07392db308755d60a1a5b9bb0fa52 Plugin authors make use of this signing mechanism in their plugins using .sign(value, namespace="default") and .unsign(value, namespace="default") . | ["Settings"] | [] |