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Basic Authentication on Windows IIS 8.0 server:

Basic Authentication tag contains the information related to configuration settings for IIS(Internet Information Services) 8.0. This tag can be enabled as well as disabled. This is used for gathering the username and password which
should be in the form of unencrypted one. Usually in order to secure the account from hacking SSl can be used to encrypt the secret information.

Windows 8.0 server setup steps:

1. Open control panel
2. Inside programs and features, tun windows features on/off.
3. Expand internet information services tab and expand wwwservices and then choose Basic Authentication.
4. Click ok and then close.

The above setup steps automatically enable the basic authentication.

Basic Authentication on Linux Server:

Basic Authentication is used to restrict the access to target website using httpd-tools.

Authentication Setup:

Consider an Nginx powered web server in which an application is running create an username and password which is in encrypted form. Now update the configuration for the website to use.   

HTTP basic authentiation can be acheived by auth_basic and uth_basic_user_file directives.

server {
auth_basic "Private";

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Similarities:
1) Both uses HTTP and SSL protocols to secure the network

Differences:
1) Different implemenatations for enabling the basic authentication.
2) Windows have clean GUI where as the Linux is having command line arguments.
3) In windows it is easy to setup basic authentication where as in linux the basic authentication can be done by running certain commands.

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