{"revision":"c10276e953456835cdbb1f3a60d58ae1980be353","document":{"id":41246,"path":"platform-security/identity/provisioning-user-basic-auth.md","title":"Provisioning user using Basic Authentication","bundle":null,"doc_type":null,"release":"australia","body":"\n# Provisioning user using Basic Authentication\n\nConfiguring SCIM automatically provisions and de-provisions users and groups to ServiceNow by using the providers' provisioning service with Basic Authentication.\n\n## Before you begin\n\nRole required: scim\\_admin\n\n**Warning:** Grant this role carefully. The scim\\_admin role is equivalent to giving the user the admin role, where the scmin\\_admin can add or update Personally Identifiable Information \\(PII\\).\n\nYou must activate the SCIM plugin.\n\n## Procedure\n\n1.  Navigate to **All** > **System Web Services** > **REST API Access Policies** to check the details on the REST API Access Policies.\n\n2.  In the API Access Policy page, click the **SCIM API Policy** record.\n\n3.  Verify the **SCIM API Basic Auth** record is available in the Authentication Profiles sections.\n\n4.  Select **Basic Auth** as the Type.\n\n5.  Create the required configurations at the provider's end.\n\n6.  Test the connection to ensure that the provider can connect to ServiceNow.\n\n    **Note:** If the connection fails, ensure that your ServiceNow account has admin permissions and try again.\n\n\n"}}