How to enable authentication in surrealDB?

[konyogony]

I start my surreal db with a shell (.sh) script using ENV variables for pswd and usrname. Here is my script:

surreal start --log trace --user $DB_USERNAME --pass $DB_PASSWORD --bind 0.0.0.0:8080 file://./data/surrealdb.db &
...

It starts successfully but then it warns me that Authentication is not enabled. I have no clue how to enable it. I would appreciate any help.
Here is the surrealDB log:

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Y88b.                                                 888 888    888 888  .88P
 'Y888b.   888  888 888d888 888d888  .d88b.   8888b.  888 888    888 8888888K.
    'Y88b. 888  888 888P'   888P'   d8P  Y8b     '88b 888 888    888 888  'Y88b
      '888 888  888 888     888     88888888 .d888888 888 888    888 888    888
Y88b  d88P Y88b 888 888     888     Y8b.     888  888 888 888  .d88P 888   d88P
 'Y8888P'   'Y88888 888     888      'Y8888  'Y888888 888 8888888P'  8888888P'


2024-08-16T12:59:05.408707Z  INFO surreal::env: Running 1.5.4 for linux on x86_64
2024-08-16T12:59:05.408718Z DEBUG surreal::dbs: Database strict mode is false
2024-08-16T12:59:05.408721Z  WARN surreal::dbs: ❌🔒 IMPORTANT: Authentication is disabled. This is not recommended for production use. 🔒❌
2024-08-16T12:59:05.408727Z DEBUG surreal::dbs: Server capabilities: scripting=false, guest_access=false, live_query_notifications=true, allow_funcs=all, deny_funcs=none, allow_net=none, deny_net=none
2024-08-16T12:59:05.408739Z  INFO surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Starting kvs store at file://data/surrealdb.db
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436243Z  INFO surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Started kvs store at file://data/surrealdb.db
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436267Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Clearing unreachable state
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436342Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Found 1 nodes
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436351Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Found 1 heartbeats
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436357Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Found 0 node live queries
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436359Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Found 0 table live queries
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436361Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Successfully cleared cluster of unreachable state
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436405Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Bootstrapping '175f5ba4-6bf2-45ff-8211-b3368837a450'
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436427Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Registering node '175f5ba4-6bf2-45ff-8211-b3368837a450'
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436462Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::tx: delr_hb: ts=[Hb { __: 47, _a: 33, _b: 104, _c: 98, hb: Timestamp { value: 1723812825189 }, _d: 47, nd: 69900292-d81e-403e-bc69-0deef08c8ebb }] limit=100000
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436475Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Found 1 expired heartbeats
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436477Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Deleting node 69900292-d81e-403e-bc69-0deef08c8ebb
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436482Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Archiving dead nodes: [Uuid(69900292-d81e-403e-bc69-0deef08c8ebb)]
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436484Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Archiving node '69900292-d81e-403e-bc69-0deef08c8ebb'
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436489Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Found 0 LQ entries for Uuid(69900292-d81e-403e-bc69-0deef08c8ebb)
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436525Z TRACE surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Gone into removing archived: 0
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436552Z  WARN surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Credentials were provided, but existing root users were found. The root user 'kony_admin' will not be created
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436554Z  WARN surrealdb_core::kvs::ds: Consider removing the --user and --pass arguments from the server start command
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436558Z DEBUG surrealdb_core::dbs::lifecycle: Started node agent initialisation
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436561Z TRACE surrealdb::api::engine::tasks: Ticker interval is 10s
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436566Z DEBUG surrealdb_core::dbs::lifecycle: Stopped node agent initialisation
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436584Z DEBUG surrealdb_core::dbs::lifecycle: Started heartbeat task
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436602Z DEBUG surrealdb_core::dbs::lifecycle: Started live query agent task
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436615Z DEBUG surrealdb_core::dbs::lifecycle: Stopped live query agent task
2024-08-16T12:59:06.436705Z  INFO surrealdb::net: Started web server on 0.0.0.0:8080

[konyogony]

Found a solution in 'surreal start --help', my bad for not reading properly, had to add ' --auth ' when i thought ' --auth enable '