How do I create a user account for basic authentication

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I d like to add basic authentication to my website  I followed the instructions in the MSDN article on Configure Basic Authentication  IIS 7      To use the UI         Open IIS Manager and navigate to the level you want to manage  For information about opening IIS Manager  see Open IIS Manager  IIS 7   For information about navigating to locations in the UI  see Navigation in IIS Manager  IIS 7     In Features View  double-click Authentication    On the Authentication page  select Basic Authentication    In the Actions pane  click Enable to use Basic authentication with the default settings    Optionally  in the Actions pane  click Edit to type the default domain and realm    In the Edit Basic Authentication Settings dialog box  in the Default domain text box  type a default domain or leave it blank  Users who do not provide a domain when they log on to your site are authenticated against this domain    In the Realm text box  type a realm or leave it blank  In general  you can use the same value for the realm name as you used for the default domain            Important   If you enter the default domain name in the Realm text box  your internal Microsoft Windows domain name may be exposed to external users during the user name and password challenge       Click OK to close the Edit Basic Authentication Settings dialog box       Here s what I ve done so far      Now I need to create a user account for the basic authentication   Does anyone know how to create users in IIS Manager

User · Answer

Right click on Computer and choose  Manage   or go to Control Panel   Administrative Tools   Computer Management  and under  Local Users and Groups  you can add a new user  Then  give that user permission to read the directory where the site is hosted   Note  After creating the user  be sure to edit the user and remove all roles

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Unfortunatelly  for IIS installed on Windows 7 8 machines  there is no option to create users only for IIS authentification   For Windows Server there is that option where you can add users from IIS Manager UI  These users have roles only on IIS  but not for the rest of the system   In this article it shows how you add users  but it is incorrect stating that is also appliable to standard OS  it only applies to server versions

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I know this is a really old question but I wanted to add a bit of explanation that I discovered the hard way  this is n00b information     Basic Authentication  shares the same accounts that you have on your local computer or network  If you leave the domain and realm empty  local accounts are what are actually being used  So to add a new account you follow the exact process you would for adding a normal new user account to your local computer  as answered by JoshM or shown here   If you enter a domain and realm you can create network accounts in your local active directory and these are what will be used to log the user in and out   Because it has been around for so long  basic authentication is generally compatible with any browser system out there but it does have to major flaws    user and password are sent in the clear  except over SSL  you need to have a user account for each user or client   For more information about basic authentication or user accounts see the following MSDN page

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Just to add a note  since I can t comment without 50  rep     If you have FIPS enabled on the server  it doesn t allow you to create users  Because IIS v8  and lower I would imagine  does not use FIPS encryption algorithms  It would be great if it supported it   because obviously a user account in windows is insecure compared to a virtual user mapped to an isolated folder  Too bad

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in iis manager click directory to protect   choose authorization rules   add deny anonymous users rule   add allow all users rule   go back to   in iis manager click directory to protect  click authentication disable all except basic authentication   the directory is now protected  only people with user accounts can access the folder over the web

User · Answer

If you create a user with the advanced user management  from command line  netplwiz   then modify the group  remove users  and add iis users  They will be able to authenticate to your web page  but not the computer

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I was able to achieve Basic Authentication on Windows Server 2012 doing the following    Select your site within IIS and choose Authentication   Ensure Basic Authentication is the only enabled option   THEN  Add a username and password via the Server Manager  Select Tools -  Computer Management   Under System Tools -  Local Users and Groups -  Users right-click anywhere in the middle pane  choose New User   then fill in the credentials you want to use    Now when you navigate to the site in the browser you should get prompted with an authentication dialog

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It looks to me like Windows 8 and IIS 7 no longer provides any UI to create a user name and password for basic authentication that is NOT a windows local user account   It is clearly a superior approach to create an IIS-only user password authentication pair  but it is not clear and easy how it is done   Command line tools exist for this purpose   Some people create a Windows account and then remove the Log on Locally User Privilege

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Configure basic authentication using the instructions from microsoft  But for the Default Domain Name  type your computer name  To find your computer name  click start  right-click computer  click properties  and search for your computer name there     Next  create users like you would normally do on windows 7  or if you don t know how to do it  go control-panel  users  add account     blah blah blah     Get It   Next go to iis and set permissions for the user you just created  Be carefull to set the permissions to make it exactly how you want it   That s all  To login  the username and password    NOTE  The username should be simple letters  not capital  I m not sure about this  that s why i told you this

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