diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 47a035efcd3d7ab9ff59e394266727e305a7d9fb..5b3bf0360e5d1c6cd372f78df100ab771b676297 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ Erwan Jahier <Erwan.Jahier@imag.fr>
 Laurent Dufréchou <laurent.dufrechou@gmail.com>
         * Windows support.
 
+Michael Scherer <misc@zarb.org>
+        * Contribution on weboob-config.
+
 Romain Garbage <romain.garbage@gmail.com>
         * Fixes for FreeBSD.
 
diff --git a/weboob/applications/weboobcfg/weboobcfg.py b/weboob/applications/weboobcfg/weboobcfg.py
index 1869c9d9d9be335fca10e54169d60aecf75cd08a..df139b27d2951a9bdee652a202b5d9c0be770b2f 100644
--- a/weboob/applications/weboobcfg/weboobcfg.py
+++ b/weboob/applications/weboobcfg/weboobcfg.py
@@ -144,6 +144,31 @@ def do_remove(self, instance_name):
             print >>sys.stderr, 'Backend instance "%s" does not exist' % instance_name
             return 1
 
+
+    def _do_toggle(self, name, state):
+        try:
+            bname, items = self.weboob.backends_config.get_backend(name)
+        except KeyError:
+            print >>sys.stderr, 'Backend instance "%s" does not exist' % name
+            return 1
+        self.weboob.backends_config.edit_backend(name, bname, {'_enabled': state})
+
+    def do_enable(self, name):
+        """
+        enable NAME
+
+        Enable a disabled backend
+        """
+        self._do_toggle(name, 1)
+
+    def do_disable(self, name):
+        """
+        disable NAME
+
+        Disable a backend
+        """
+        self._do_toggle(name, 0)
+
     def do_edit(self, line):
         """
         edit NAME