small shell function to generate a basic authentication Authentication token / published by https://github.com/dacr/code-examples-manager #754cb140-a435-4cfb-9b5c-44cea3e0a1b0/ec44770c9b719c6786c34e29b4b90dded49d6c0e

basic-auth-token.sh

## summary : small shell function to generate a basic authentication Authentication token
## keywords : bash, token, credential, basic-auth, authentication, base64, encode, @testable
## publish : gist
## authors : David Crosson
## license : Apache NON-AI License Version 2.0 (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses/main/NON-AI-APACHE2)
## id : 754cb140-a435-4cfb-9b5c-44cea3e0a1b0
## created-on : 2021-02-01T07:05:52Z
## managed-by : https://github.com/dacr/code-examples-manager
## run-with : sh $file

basicAuthToken() {
    USER=$1
    PASS=$2
    ENC=$(echo -n "$USER:$PASS" | base64)
    echo "Basic $ENC"
}

TOKEN=$(basicAuthToken "root" "root")

if [ "$TOKEN" != "Basic cm9vdDpyb290" ]; then
  echo "WRONG ENCODING"
  exit 1
fi

echo "Authorization: $TOKEN"