# basicAuth user and userfile

**URL:** <https://community.traefik.io/t/basicauth-user-and-userfile/4464>\
**Category:** Traefik v2\
**Tags:** middleware\
**Created:** [February 17, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/basicauth-user-and-userfile/4464 "2020-02-17T14:07:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/basicauth-user-and-userfile/4464/1 "2020-02-17T14:07:11Z")

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is it normal that for user and userfile the kubernetes configuration are the same:  
[https://docs.traefik.io/middlewares/basicauth/#users](https://docs.traefik.io/middlewares/basicauth/#users)

[https://docs.traefik.io/middlewares/basicauth/#usersfile](https://docs.traefik.io/middlewares/basicauth/#usersfile)

```auto
# Declaring the user list
apiVersion: traefik.containo.us/v1alpha1
kind: Middleware
metadata:
  name: test-auth
spec:
  basicAuth:
    secret: authsecret

---
# Note: in a kubernetes secret the string (e.g. generated by htpasswd) must be base64-encoded first.
# To create an encoded user:password pair, the following command can be used:
# htpasswd -nb user password | openssl base64

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: authsecret
  namespace: default

data:
  users: |2
    dGVzdDokYXByMSRINnVza2trVyRJZ1hMUDZld1RyU3VCa1RycUU4d2ovCnRlc3QyOiRhcHIxJGQ5
    aHI5SEJCJDRIeHdnVWlyM0hQNEVzZ2dQL1FObzAK

```