#14 put the read API behind a session or an API key. External agents reach the wiki through wiki-index.renner.uno with BasicAuth only, and since #14 they got 401: a regression. The service now checks `Authorization: Basic` itself against the same htpasswd lines Traefik's wiki-api-basic-auth middleware uses (Auth:Basic:UsersPath: a file, or a mounted Secret directory where every visible key is read, as Traefik reads every key of an Opaque Secret). This is a credential check in the service, not trust in a proxy: the header proves nothing unless the password matches the hash. - Hash formats Traefik accepts: bcrypt ($2a$/$2b$/$2y$, BCrypt.Net-Next 4.2.1), Apache MD5 ($apr1$, implemented here and checked against the Traefik docs example and `openssl passwd -apr1`), SHA1 ({SHA}). Any other format authenticates nobody. - The identity is a machine named after the BasicAuth user. - Policy "read" accepts it; "write" stays API-key only, and the UI stays OIDC only. - A verified (user, password, hash) triple is cached in memory, so bcrypt costs once per process. - With no UsersPath configured the scheme authenticates nobody, so this image is safe before the deployment mounts the Secret. Tests: all three hash formats read the API; a wrong password, an unknown user, an empty password and a user found only in a hidden Secret entry are 401; BasicAuth cannot write and does not open the UI.