retired
Databricks-managed passwords
Databricks-managed passwords is retired, replaced by OAuth authentication (retired July 2024).
The original way in - a username and password held by Databricks, used to sign into the workspace UI and to authenticate API calls and BI tools as HTTP basic auth.
- What replaced it for anyone without single sign-on is email. You ask to log in, then wait for a one-time code to arrive in your inbox.
- Every script still sending a username and password broke on the same day, and the guidance for automation was simply to move to OAuth.
- Passwords did not entirely die. Emergency access still lets a small number of named users sign in with a password and multi-factor authentication, so the retired mechanism survives precisely for the day everything else is broken.
- Category
- Developer experience
- Also known as
- basic authentication, basic auth, username and password login
- Verified
- 2026-09-17