Error creating user in CouchDB 1.0

Question

My system is ubuntu 10.04 and I have CouchDB 1.0 installed. I can create admin, or more admins, log in as admin and everything works fine.

Since 0.11 in CouchDB there i

Answer 1

To create a user, PUT a JSON document to http://localhost:5984/_users/org.couchdb.user:

For example create a file login.json like this:

{
    "_id": "org.couchdb.user:test",
    "name": "test",
    "password_sha": "24e8e07c23d8ae85108468ec4814b2f0fa84edde",
    "salt": "78f67e252351a56d6e1e6df9ba005239",
    "roles": [],
    "type": "user"
}

Then PUT the data into couchdb:

curl -X PUT http://:@localhost:5984/_users/org.couchdb.user%3Atest -S -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @login.json

(Replace and with your couchdb credentials.)

Now you should be able to log into couchdb with the user "test" and the password "test123".