> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.oauth.fyi/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Configuration

> How KeyAuth Bot connects to your KeyAuth application and account.

KeyAuth Bot needs to be linked to a KeyAuth **application**, and for most functionality a
KeyAuth **seller account**, before it's usable. Setting up and wiring those credentials is
covered in the bot's own deployment documentation — this page covers the credential concepts
that matter once the bot is running and connected.

## KeyAuth dashboard credentials

<Warning>
  These are two different credentials with very different blast radii. Don't confuse them.
</Warning>

|        | Application name / owner ID | Seller key                                                                                     |
| ------ | --------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Where  | Application settings        | Seller Settings (a different page)                                                             |
| Scope  | One application             | **Your entire KeyAuth account**                                                                |
| Can do | Identify the app            | Create/delete licenses and users, change settings, across **every** application on the account |

The seller key cannot be scoped by KeyAuth. Every seller API call sends it as a URL query
parameter — there's no POST form — so **IP-whitelisting your server in Seller Settings** is the
main real control available, and it costs nothing to set up.

Also confirm **HWID checking** is enabled on the application. With it off, KeyAuth runs no HWID
logic and a reset changes nothing — check any time with `/licops status`.

## What requires the seller key

Without a seller key configured, the bot still starts, but account commands, key-management
commands, and HWID-reset commands are disabled — along with everything under
[License Operations](/keyauth/features/license-operations). See that page for what each
capability needs.