Basic Auth

As an alternative for generated Tokens, you can authorize requests with HTTP Basic Auth using your account ID, user name and password.

Sample cURL Requests

curl -v \
    --basic --user {AUTH_ACCOUNT_ID}:$PASSWORD \
    http://server.com:8000/v2/accounts/{ACCOUNT_ID}/devices

This is useful for reseller to execute requests against a their sub-account quickly.

Basic Auth Username

Should be set to account_id of the authorizing account.

Basic Password Password

Should be set to MD5 hash of your account’s username:password

Example shell command to get the md5 sum of your username:password:

# the output of the echo command is 133e1b8eda335c4c7f7a508620ca7f10
PASSWORD=`echo -n username:password | md5sum | awk '{print $1}'`

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