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|[[Options#USER|USER]]
|{{Code|admin}}
| Applies to REST and WebDAV service: If no user is specified, the credentials must be passed on by the client. Please check by yourself if it is safe to store your credentials in plain text. Until {{Version|7.9}}, the {{Code|admin}} user was specified as default.
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|[[Options#USER|PASSWORD]]
|{{Code|admin}}
| Applies to REST and WebDAV service: If no password is specified, it must be passed on by the client. Please check by yourself if it is safe to store your credentials in plain text. Until {{Version|7.9}}, the {{Code|admin}} password was specified as default.
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|[[Options#HTTPLOCAL|HTTPLOCAL]]
|[[Options#AUTHMETHOD|AUTHMETHOD]]
|{{Code|Basic}}
|{{Version|8.0}}: The default authentication method proposed by the server. The available methods are {{Code|Basic}} and {{Code|Digest}} is available.
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[[Command-Line Options#BaseX HTTP Server|command-line arguments]].
If the HTTP server is started with no pre-defined credentials, users and passwords can be sent via
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication HTTP Basic Authentication]with each HTTP request. Since {{Version|8.0}}, or[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_authentication Digest Authentication] is availableas well, with support for all qop directives ({{Code|auth}} and {{Code|auth-int}}).
Users are specified in a {{Code|users.xml}} file, which is stored in the database directory (see [[User Management]] for more information).
