paderijk / jupyter-password

Add a password to your Jupyter config

Jupyter Password

About

This script adds a hashed password to protect your Jupyter notebooks.

Prerequisites

• Jupyter installation

How to use it

Create initial jupyter config

You need to create a initial jupyter config:

jupyter notebook --generate-config

Create password

python jupyter-password.py

So for example:

$ jupyter notebook --generate-config
Writing default config to: /home/pieter/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py
$ python jupyter-password.py
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Setting Jupyter additional configuration
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Please set a strong password
Enter password: *VERYSECRETPASSW4RD* [enter]
Verify password: *VERYSECRETPASSW4RD* [enter]
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Following will be added to /home/pieter/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py

  # Start of lines added by jupyter-password.py
  c.NotebookApp.password = u'sha1:e6a963af99fd:2c87c08ebb674db3a68c57726d30be929f240e5f'
  c.NotebookApp.open_browser = False
  # End lines added by jupyter-passwordd.py
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