sqladmin http basic authentication

admin.py

import base64
import binascii
import secrets

from starlette.authentication import (
    AuthCredentials, AuthenticationBackend, AuthenticationError, SimpleUser
)
from starlette.requests import HTTPConnection
from starlette.responses import Response, JSONResponse
from starlette.middleware import Middleware
from starlette.middleware.authentication import AuthenticationMiddleware


class BasicAuthMiddleware(AuthenticationMiddleware):

    def default_on_error(self, conn: HTTPConnection, exc: Exception) -> Response:
        if isinstance(exc, AuthenticationError):
            return JSONResponse(
                status_code=401,
                content={"message": "Basic authentication"},
                headers={"WWW-Authenticate": "Basic"}
            )
        else:
            return super().default_on_error(conn, exc)


class BasicAuthBackend(AuthenticationBackend):

    admin_username = 'admin'
    admin_password = 'admin'

    async def authenticate(self, conn):
        if "Authorization" not in conn.headers:
            raise AuthenticationError('Invalid basic auth credentials')
        auth = conn.headers["Authorization"]
        try:
            scheme, credentials = auth.split()
            if scheme.lower() != 'basic':
                raise AuthenticationError('Invalid basic auth credentials')
            decoded = base64.b64decode(credentials).decode("ascii")
        except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError, binascii.Error) as exc:
            raise AuthenticationError('Invalid basic auth credentials')
        username, _, password = decoded.partition(":")
        if not (secrets.compare_digest(username, self.admin_username) and secrets.compare_digest(password, self.admin_password)):
            raise AuthenticationError('Invalid basic auth credentials')
        return AuthCredentials(["authenticated"]), SimpleUser(username)


admin_middlewares = [
    Middleware(BasicAuthMiddleware, backend=BasicAuthBackend())
]

main.py

from fastapi import FastAPI

from sqladmin import Admin

from .config.database import engine
from .config.admin import admin_middlewares


app = FastAPI()

admin = Admin(app=app, engine=engine, middlewares=admin_middlewares)
# admin.add_view(MyModelAdmin)

Thank you this helped! It was super simple

I changed

admin_username = settings.ADMIN_USERNAME
admin_password = settings.ADMIN_PASSWORD

Cheers!