Support HTTP Basic authentication

[pectojin]

Support HTTP Basic authentication

[Pectojin]

Good idea!

I hadn't really thought about it, but I took at look at it and wasn't too complex.

I added support for a --basic-user and --basic-pass to the login method.

duc login https://duplicati.host.local --basic-user=rune --basic-pass=password

It's a layer on top of the regular authentication, so you can have both:

duc login https://duplicati.host.local --basic-user=rune --basic-pass=password --password=password

or interactively

duc login https://duplicati.host.local --basic-user=rune
Basic auth:
Password:
Login successful

It supports parameter files as usual and of course only prompts for the 2nd password if Duplicati asks.

There is one thing worth mentioning, though. When using basic auth it requires a base64 encoded string 'username:password'. This is stored in the config file, and of course sent over the network to the server.
It's a good deal less secure than the regular login method because it's easier to figure out the password. If your apache host provides SSL then it's more secure, but anyone with access to your config file can easily figure out the password.

[Pectojin]

I added it to a the new release, 0.3.8, feel free to give it a try.
duplicati_client/releases/tag/0.3.8_beta