id,page,ref,title,content,breadcrumbs,references
authentication:authentication-permissions-instance,authentication,authentication-permissions-instance,Controlling access to an instance,"Here's how to restrict access to your entire Datasette instance to just the  ""id"": ""root""  user: 
                 {
    ""title"": ""My private Datasette instance"",
    ""allow"": {
        ""id"": ""root""
    }
} 
                 To deny access to all users, you can use  ""allow"": false : 
                 {
    ""title"": ""My entirely inaccessible instance"",
    ""allow"": false
} 
                 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"", ""Configuring permissions in metadata.json""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-permissions-sql"", ""label"": ""datasette-permissions-sql""}]"