Add basic auth authentication support

[pabelanger]

Currently, grafana exposes the admin_user and admin_password in the .ini file; this is convenient. As such, I'm requesting we also expose and admin_api_key via the .ini file.

The purpose of this is to help with automated depolyments of grafana. There is no method exposed currently that allows for an initial api_key to be provisioned. Current steps require logging into GUI as admin user and manually adding it.

[torkelo]

yea, I have definitely seen this pain. One other solution that I would like to do is to allow api authentication with username/pass

[pabelanger]

Yup, I could see that working too

[pabelanger]

Another thought would be to expose the hash / salt function to an external CLI tool. Then we can manually move the hash into the database

[torkelo]

@pabelanger was thinking along similar lines

[torkelo]

would be nice to not have a plain text password in the automation script

[3fr61n]

It would be great to have the api authentication with username/pass, it would solve automation deployments

[torkelo]

You can now use the api with username password using a standard basic auth header (integrated into most http client libs)

❯curl -u admin http://localhost:3000/api/org
Enter host password for user 'admin':
{"id":1,"name":"Main Org."}

[torkelo]

this also works,

curl http://admin:admin@localhost:3000/api/org

[3fr61n]

Thank!!!!