### AuthBasic

This property specifies Basic authentication as one of the possible Windows authentication schemes returned to clients as being available. AuthBasic is one of the authentication scheme flags contained in the AuthFlags property.

Data type | Boolean
Default value | FALSE
Inheritance | Inheritable

###### Access Locations

This property is accessible at the following locations:

Metabase Path | IIS Admin Object Type
/LM/W3SVC | IIsWebService
/LM/W3SVC/N | IIsWebServer
/LM/W3SVC/N/ROOT | IIsWebVirtualDir
/LM/W3SVC/N/ROOT/WebVirtualDir | IIsWebVirtualDir
/LM/W3SVC/N/ROOT/WebVirtualDir/WebDirectory | IIsWebDirectory
/LM/W3SVC/N/ROOT/WebVirtualDir/WebDirectory/WebFile | IIsWebFile

###### IIS Admin Base Object Information

The following table lists additional information required only for code that uses the IIS Admin Base Object.

Note This property is a bitmask flag of the identifier MD_AUTHORIZATION.

Metabase identifier | MD_AUTHORIZATION
Metabase bitmask identifier | MD_AUTH_BASIC
Data type | DWORD_METADATA
User type | IIS_MD_UT_FILE
Metabase bitmask value | 0x00000002

###### See Also

AuthFlags

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