sections: authentication:authentication-ds-actor
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| authentication:authentication-ds-actor | authentication | authentication-ds-actor | The ds_actor cookie | Datasette includes a default authentication plugin which looks for a signed ds_actor cookie containing a JSON actor dictionary. This is how the root actor mechanism works. Authentication plugins can set signed ds_actor cookies themselves like so: response = Response.redirect("/") response.set_cookie( "ds_actor", datasette.sign({"a": {"id": "cleopaws"}}, "actor"), ) Note that you need to pass "actor" as the namespace to .sign(value, namespace="default") . The shape of data encoded in the cookie is as follows: { "a": {... actor ...} } | ["Authentication and permissions"] | [] |