https://docs.goshs.de/en/usage/authentication/basic/index.html Use basic authentication You can use basic authentication with -b to secure the web server. The format is -b user:password, where user can be empty like -b :password. $ goshs -b secret-user:secret-password WARNING[2024-07-04 18:01:46] You are using basic auth without SSL. Your credentials will be transferred in cleartext. Consider using -s, too. INFO [2024-07-04 18:01:46] Using basic auth with user 'secret-user' and password 'secret-password' INFO [2024-07-04 18:01:46] Download embedded file at: /example.txt?embedded INFO [2024-07-04 18:01:46] Serving on interface lo bound to 127.0.0.1:8000 INFO [2024-07-04 18:01:46] Serving on interface eth0 bound to 10.137.0.27:8000 INFO [2024-07-04 18:01:46] Serving HTTP from /home/user Connection without authentication: Hugo en-US