Alkaline has such global settings as the LogPath
or the HTTP proxy.
It also has password protected areas, such as the online management.
Passwords and additional global configuration options are defined in the global.cnf file that has to be created
in the same directory where Alkaline is run from.
The syntax for passwords, for example, is:
Alkaline predefined global.cnf options and passwords are fully described in
Appendix II: Known global.cnf Variables
and Appendix III: Known global.cnf Passwords
.