# Authentication against berkshelf source endpoint?

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/authentication-against-berkshelf-source-endpoint/7754>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [February 6, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/authentication-against-berkshelf-source-endpoint/7754 "2016-02-06T18:10:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/authentication-against-berkshelf-source-endpoint/7754/1 "2016-02-06T18:10:35Z")

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I want to setup my own supermarket for my own private cookbooks on the open Internet. I’d like access to these cookbooks to be secured. However, I don’t see how to specify authentication in the Berksfile to access this private source endpoint. Is there a way to do this? Or are berkshelf source endpoints meant to be unauthenticated at the moment?

Furthermore, how do you make `knife supermarket share` work in this case?

I know that the supermarket app supports OAuth (oc-id) authentication, but this is for the web ui only, right? Or is there a way to specify OAuth credentials for `knife supermarket` and berkshelf source usage?