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Note: Basic Authentication is suitable for test system and easy to configure. When considering for production usage, following additional security configurations must be taken:

  • Basic Authentication is not transported security securely from client to server in HTTP message. So for For security reasons, the transport must be configured for TSL-encryption (HTTPS)

  • Modern browsers remember user credentials when using Basic Authentication. So when When multiple users sharing a client machine, login may not be properly secured.

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When the basic authentication (default) is used, but the a password is not configured here, the tia® Status UI application will generate a random password at startup which can be looked up from the container logs.

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The password hash in the configuration has to be the bcrypt-hash value of the password. Read more about creating bcrypt-hashs here: Creating a bcrypt-hash value

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