Title: Using HTTP Basic Auth to log in users
Last modified: September 5, 2019

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# Using HTTP Basic Auth to log in users

 *  [flberger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flberger/)
 * (@flberger)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-http-basic-auth-to-log-in-users/)
 * I want to log in Worpdress users using username and password provided by HTTP
   Basic Auth.
 * This is for example the default login method of the trac issue tracker ( [https://trac.edgewall.org/](https://trac.edgewall.org/)).
 * I have searched plugins, these forums, and the web, but to my astonishement hardly
   anyone seems to have tried this.
 * There has been one attempt in 2007 [https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/http_auth-pluginhow-to/](https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/http_auth-pluginhow-to/),
   bridging the HTTP Basic Auth data to the WordPress cookie. This is what I am 
   looking for, but the code from then is not available anymore.
 * Is there any way logging in or setting a WordPress user using HTTP Basic Auth?

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 * [authentication](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/authentication/)
 * [login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/login/)

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 * Last reply from: [flberger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flberger/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-http-basic-auth-to-log-in-users/)
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