Add new Basic Auth authenticator

[piotrmsc]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Oathkeeper provides already a set of useable authenticators but I would be really nice to support basic one such as Basic Authentication.

Describe the solution you'd like

New authenticator available with the possibility to define user:pass on global and per rule level. Of course, we should have a limit for registered user:pass pairs per service/rule.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Temporary workaround for this is it to use oatuh2_client_credentials authenticator but not in production ofc.

Additional context

Consider hashing user:password or just password on the access rule

/cc @aeneasr

[aeneasr]

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