---
title: Basic Auth
description: Learn how to authenticate into Tracecat with email and password.
---

<Warning>
  Basic auth should only be used for local development.
  For production, use [Google OAuth](/self-hosting/authentication/google) or [SAML SSO](/self-hosting/authentication/sso).
</Warning>

# Configuration

In your `.env` file, make sure you have the following value set.

```bash
TRACECAT__AUTH_TYPES=basic
```

To disable basic auth, just remove `basic` from the comma separated list of `TRACECAT__AUTH_TYPES`.
