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# Authentication

Protecting your Flower instance from unwarranted access is important if it runs in an untrusted environment. Below, we outline the various forms of authentication supported by Flower.

## HTTP Basic Authentication

Securing Flower with Basic Authentication is easy.

The –basic_auth option accepts user:password pairs separated by semicolons. If configured, any client trying to access this Flower instance will be prompted to provide the credentials specified in this argument:

    $ celery flower --basic_auth=user1:password1,user2:password2

See also Running behind reverse proxy

## Google OpenID

Flower also supports Google OpenID. This way you can authenticate any user with a Google account. Google OpenID authentication is enabled using the –auth option, which accepts a group of emails in the form of a regular expression.

Grant access to Google accounts with email me@gmail.com and you@gmail.com:

    $ celery flower --auth="me@gmail.com|you@gmail.com"

Grant access to all Google accounts having a domain of example.com:

    $ celery flower --auth=.*@example\.com

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