diff --git a/tests/KubernetesClientConfigurationTests.cs b/tests/KubernetesClientConfigurationTests.cs
index f4f9e91..32d59ec 100755
--- a/tests/KubernetesClientConfigurationTests.cs
+++ b/tests/KubernetesClientConfigurationTests.cs
@@ -13,8 +13,16 @@ namespace k8s.Tests
         /// </summary>
         private static readonly string kubeConfigFileName = "assets/kubeconfig.yml";
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Invalid test file with no context on purpose
+        /// </summary>
         private static readonly string kubeConfigNoContexts = "assets/kubeconfig-no-context.yml";
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Sample configuration file with user/password authentication
+        /// </summary>
+        private static readonly string kubeConfigUserPassword = "assets/kubeconfig.user-pass.yml";
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Checks Host is loaded from the default configuration file
         /// </summary>
@@ -100,7 +108,19 @@ namespace k8s.Tests
         {
             var fi = new FileInfo(kubeConfigNoContexts);
             Assert.Throws<k8s.Exceptions.KubeConfigException>(() => new KubernetesClientConfiguration(fi, "context"));         
-        }               
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Checks user/password authentication information is read properly
+        /// </summary>
+        [Fact]
+        public void UserPasswordAuthentication()
+        {
+            var fi = new FileInfo(kubeConfigUserPassword);
+            var cfg = new KubernetesClientConfiguration(fi);
+            Assert.Equal("admin", cfg.Username);
+            Assert.Equal("secret", cfg.Password);
+        }
 
         // /// <summary>
         // /// Checks if the are pods
diff --git a/tests/assets/kubeconfig.user-pass.yml b/tests/assets/kubeconfig.user-pass.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b426ef5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/assets/kubeconfig.user-pass.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Sample file based on https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/authenticate-across-clusters-kubeconfig/
+# WARNING: File includes minor fixes
+---
+current-context: federal-context
+apiVersion: v1
+clusters:
+- cluster:
+    certificate-authority-data: path/to/my/cafile
+    server: https://horse.org:4443
+  name: horse-cluster
+contexts:
+- context:
+    cluster: horse-cluster
+    namespace: chisel-ns
+    user: green-user
+  name: federal-context
+kind: Config
+users:
+- name: green-user
+  user:
+    password: secret
+    username: admin
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