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Version: 2.12

basic-auth

Summary#

Name#

basic-auth is an authentication plugin that need to work with consumer. Add Basic Authentication to a service or route.

The consumer then adds its key to the request header to verify its request.

For more information on Basic authentication, refer to Wiki for more information.

Attributes#

For consumer side:

NameTypeRequirementDefaultValidDescription
usernamestringrequiredDifferent consumer should have different value which is unique. When different consumer use a same username, a request matching exception would be raised.
passwordstringrequiredthe user's password

For route side:

NameTypeRequirementDefaultValidDescription
hide_credentialsbooleanoptionalfalseWhether to pass the Authorization request headers to the upstream.

How To Enable#

1. set a consumer and config the value of the basic-auth option#

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/consumers -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
"username": "foo",
"plugins": {
"basic-auth": {
"username": "foo",
"password": "bar"
}
}
}'

you also can add a Consumer through the web console:

then add basic-auth plugin in the Consumer page:

2. add a Route or add a Service, and enable the basic-auth plugin#

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
"methods": ["GET"],
"uri": "/hello",
"plugins": {
"basic-auth": {}
},
"upstream": {
"type": "roundrobin",
"nodes": {
"127.0.0.1:1980": 1
}
}
}'

Test Plugin#

  • missing Authorization header
$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
...
{"message":"Missing authorization in request"}
  • user is not exists:
$ curl -i -ubar:bar http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
...
{"message":"Invalid user key in authorization"}
  • password is invalid:
$ curl -i -ufoo:foo http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
...
{"message":"Password is error"}
  • success:
$ curl -i -ufoo:bar http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
hello, world

Disable Plugin#

When you want to disable the basic-auth plugin, it is very simple, you can delete the corresponding json configuration in the plugin configuration, no need to restart the service, it will take effect immediately:

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -X PUT -d '
{
"methods": ["GET"],
"uri": "/hello",
"plugins": {},
"upstream": {
"type": "roundrobin",
"nodes": {
"127.0.0.1:1980": 1
}
}
}'