edx/configuration — pull request #1279 by dhpollack (2014-07-05 14:41:37+00:00)
Title: change default of COMMON_ENABLE_BASIC_AUTH to False

I changed the default behavior of basic authorization to false. I found the default behavior unintuitive. Upon installation of the default image via vagrant, going to the server from a remote host (including the vagrant host computer) prompts the user for a username/password. The default behavior should be that the edx lms/cms "just work" without a username/password, right? Furthermore, the documentation does not mention that the username/password is edx/edx, and one can only find this information by going into the source files. Finally, I didn't see a great reason to use basic auth at all, and thus if someone wants to use it, they probably should explicitly enable it, instead of this being the default behavior.