livebook/docs/authentication.md

Authentication

Introduction

Livebook's authentication covers all pages for creating, writing, and managing notebooks.

Livebook's default authentication method is token authentication. A token is automatically generated at startup and printed to the logs.

You may optionally enable password-based authentication by setting the environment variable LIVEBOOK_PASSWORD on startup or deployment. It must be at least 12 characters.

To disable authentication altogether, you may set the environment variable LIVEBOOK_TOKEN_ENABLED to false.

Securing deployed notebooks

When you deploy a notebook as an application, the deployed application is not covered by Livebook's token/password authentication. In such cases, you have two options:

• You can set a password when deploying your notebook

• You can enable proxy authentication when deploying inside a cloud infrastructure. See the "Deployment" section on the sidebar for more information