User Privileges and Basic Authentication

Basic Authentication is available for the web interface, but should only be enabled in a single-user environment. Even then, form-based authentication is recommended. The user privilege model (which allows individual users to be given access to specific bots and functions) only applies to form-based authentication. If there is interest in basic authentication in a multi-user environment, please submit an issue (or comment if someone else has already opened one).

Note that the API has its own authentication via API Keys, so creating multiple API-only users with unique API keys is not a problem when basic authentication is enabled.