Enable Basic Auth for Kong Manager

Prerequisites

To enable Basic Authentication, configure Kong with the following properties:

enforce_rbac = on
admin_gui_auth = basic-auth
admin_gui_session_conf = { "secret":"set-your-string-here" }

The Sessions Plugin requries a secret and is configured securely by default.

• Under all circumstances, the secret must be manually set to a string.
• If using HTTP instead of HTTPS, cookie_secure must be manually set to false.
• If using different domains for the Admin API and Kong Manager, cookie_samesite must be set to off. Learn more about these properties in Session Security in Kong Manager, and see example configurations.

Step 1

Start Kong:

$ kong start [-c /path/to/kong/conf]

Step 2

If you created a Super Admin via database migration, log in to Kong Manager with the username kong_admin and the password set in the environment variable.

If you created a Super Admin via the Kong Manager “Organization” tab as described in How to Create a Super Admin, log in with the credentials you created after accepting the email invitation.