Use Basic Auth by Default

This patch makes pyCA use HTTP Basic authentication by default for
communicating with Opencast. The Digest authentication is still widely
used for capture agents, but slowly becomes more obscure.

Note that this is only the default. You can still use HTTP Digest
authentication in necessary.

etc/pyca.conf

@@ -189,18 +189,18 @@ url              = 'https://develop.opencast.org'
 #
 # Type: options
 # Allowed values: basic, digest
-# Default: digest
-#auth_method = 'digest'
+# Default: basic
+#auth_method = 'basic'
 
 # Username for the admin server
 # Type: string
-# Default: opencast_system_account
-username         = 'opencast_system_account'
+# Default: admin
+username         = 'admin'
 
 # Password for the admin server
 # Type: string
-# Default: CHANGE_ME
-password         = 'CHANGE_ME'
+# Default: opencast
+password         = 'opencast'
 
 # HTTPS certificates for verification. If signed by a certificate authority
 # through an intermediate certificate, make sure to import the whole

pyca/config.py

@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@
 
 [server]
 url              = string(default='https://develop.opencast.org')
-auth_method      = option('basic', 'digest', default='digest')
-username         = string(default='opencast_system_account')
-password         = string(default='CHANGE_ME')
+auth_method      = option('basic', 'digest', default='basic')
+username         = string(default='admin')
+password         = string(default='opencast')
 insecure         = boolean(default=False)
 certificate      = string(default='')
 cookiefile       = string(default='')