Mint, scope and rotate Turso database and group auth tokens
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Documented steps
Choose scope. Database token = one database. Group token = every database in the group, which is what you want for multi-tenant fleets where databases are created continuously.
Database token via CLI: `turso db tokens create <database-name>` with `-e/--expiration <never|7d|7d3h2m1s>` and `-r/--read-only` (https://docs.turso.tech/cli/db/tokens/create).
Database token via API: POST https://api.turso.tech/v1/organizations/{organizationSlug}/databases/{databaseName}/auth/tokens with query params `expiration` and `authorization` (full-access | read-only) (https://docs.turso.tech/api-reference/databases/create-token).
Group token via CLI: `turso group tokens create <group-name>`; via API: POST https://api.turso.tech/v1/organizations/{organizationSlug}/groups/{groupName}/auth/tokens (https://docs.turso.tech/api-reference/groups/create-token).
For finer control, use fine-grained permission claims (e.g. all:data_read, or per-table data_add/data_update) rather than issuing a full-access token to an untrusted client (https://docs.turso.tech/sdk/authorization/tokens).
Set an explicit expiration for anything shipped to a client or CI runner — the documented DEFAULT is `never`.
To revoke: POST https://api.turso.tech/v1/organizations/{organizationSlug}/databases/{databaseName}/auth/rotate, which invalidates all existing tokens for that database (https://docs.turso.tech/api-reference/databases/invalidate-tokens).
Re-mint and redeploy tokens to every consumer immediately after rotating, then verify with a read query over /v2/pipeline.
Known gotchas
Default expiration is `never` for both database and group tokens. A leaked token is valid forever until you rotate.
Rotation is all-or-nothing per database (or group) and the docs state it requires a short downtime — schedule it, do not run it mid-traffic.
Group tokens grant access to databases created LATER in that group too. Convenient for provisioning, dangerous if the token reaches a tenant.
Tokens are shown once at creation; there is no read-back endpoint.
A read-only token still consumes row-read quota — read-only is an authorization control, not a cost control.
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