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title: Create a basic auth profile
description: Create a basic auth profile to specify basic authentication credentials for one or more REST messages.
locale: en-US
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release: australia
product: Web Services
classification: web-services
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Configure a message with basic auth, Outbound REST authentication, REST, Outbound, Web services, API implementation, API implementation and reference]
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# Create a basic auth profile

Create a basic auth profile to specify basic authentication credentials for one or more REST messages.

## Before you begin

Role required: web\_service\_admin

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **System Web Services** > **REST Message**.

2.  Select a REST message record.

3.  In the **Authentication type** field, select **Basic**.

4.  In the **Basic auth profile** field, click the reference lookup icon.

5.  Click **New**.

6.  Enter a descriptive **Name** for the profile.

7.  Enter the **Username** and **Password** you want to send as basic authentication credentials.

8.  Click **Submit**.


## What to do next

Configure a REST message to use this basic auth profile.

**Parent Topic:**[Configure a REST message with basic auth](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/api-reference/web-services/t_ConfigureRESTMsgBasicAuth.md)