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Authentication

Git authentication

uv allows packages to be installed from Git and supports the following schemes for authenticating with private repositories.

Using SSH:

See the GitHub SSH documentation for more details on how to configure SSH.

Using a password or token:

When using a GitHub personal access token, the username is arbitrary. GitHub does not support logging in with password directly, although other hosts may. If a username is provided without credentials, you will be prompted to enter them.

If there are no credentials present in the URL and authentication is needed, the Git credential helper will be queried.

HTTP authentication

uv supports credentials over HTTP when querying package registries.

Authentication can come from the following sources, in order of precedence:

  • The URL, e.g., https://<user>:<password>@<hostname>/...
  • A .netrc configuration file
  • A keyring provider (requires opt-in)

If authentication is found for a single net location (scheme, host, and port), it will be cached for the duration of the command and used for other queries to that net location. Authentication is not cached across invocations of uv.

.netrc authentication is enabled by default, and will respect the NETRC environment variable if defined, falling back to ~/.netrc if not.

To enable keyring-based authentication, pass the --keyring-provider subprocess command-line argument to uv, or set UV_KEYRING_PROVIDER=subprocess.

Authentication may be used for hosts specified in the following contexts:

  • index-url
  • extra-index-url
  • find-links
  • package @ https://...

See the pip compatibility guide for details on differences from pip.

Custom CA certificates

By default, uv loads certificates from the bundled webpki-roots crate. The webpki-roots are a reliable set of trust roots from Mozilla, and including them in uv improves portability and performance (especially on macOS, where reading the system trust store incurs a significant delay).

However, in some cases, you may want to use the platform's native certificate store, especially if you're relying on a corporate trust root (e.g., for a mandatory proxy) that's included in your system's certificate store. To instruct uv to use the system's trust store, run uv with the --native-tls command-line flag, or set the UV_NATIVE_TLS environment variable to true.

If a direct path to the certificate is required (e.g., in CI), set the SSL_CERT_FILE environment variable to the path of the certificate bundle, to instruct uv to use that file instead of the system's trust store.

If client certificate authentication (mTLS) is desired, set the SSL_CLIENT_CERT environment variable to the path of the PEM formatted file containing the certificate followed by the private key.

Finally, if you're using a setup in which you want to trust a self-signed certificate or otherwise disable certificate verification, you can instruct uv to allow insecure connections to dedicated hosts via the allow-insecure-host configuration option. For example, adding the following to pyproject.toml will allow insecure connections to example.com:

[tool.uv]
allow-insecure-host = ["example.com"]

allow-insecure-host expects to receive a hostname (e.g., localhost) or hostname-port pair (e.g., localhost:8080), and is only applicable to HTTPS connections, as HTTP connections are inherently insecure.

Use allow-insecure-host with caution and only in trusted environments, as it can expose you to security risks due to the lack of certificate verification.

Authentication with alternative package indexes

See the alternative indexes integration guide for details on authentication with popular alternative Python package indexes.