Non-interactive login to the API via PAT and basic authentication?

[drauch]

If we want to query the API in a non-interactive way (in a background service), what's the recommended way of authenticating?

We're currently saving a personal access token (PAT) of a user in the configuration and use HTTP basic authentication (username=, password=<PAT>) to authenticate. Is this the way to go?

Best regards, D.R.