Before you begin
BasicAuth refers to the user ID and the password of a valid user in the registry of the target server. After a request is received that contains basic authentication information, the server needs to log in to form a credential. The credential is used for authorization. If the user ID and the password supplied are not valid, an exception is thrown and the request ends without invoking the resource. For more information on BasicAuth authentication, see BasicAuth.Why and when to perform this task
Complete the following steps to configure the server to handle BasicAuth authentication information:
Steps for this task
You can select multiple login configurations, which means that different types of security information might be received at the server. The order in which the login configurations are added decides the order in which they are processed when a request is received. Problems can occur if you have multiple login configurations added that have security tokens in common. For example, ID assertion contains a BasicAuth token. For ID assertion to work properly, list ID assertion ahead of BasicAuth in the processing list or the BasicAuth processing overrides the IDAssertion processing.
What to do next
After you specify how the server handles BasicAuth authentication information, you must specify how the server validates the authentication information. See Configuring the server to validate basicauth authentication information for more information.