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.

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Answer 1

It looks like you already have an admin account on the system, which CouchDB is detecting and expecting you to be logged in as to create accounts. Check your local.ini config file to see if you have any admins defined in the [admins] section - you will probably have some defined if you are upgrading from an old install.

Log in as one of those admins, or change their password if you don't remember it (just replace the has with your clear text password and it'll be hashed the next time CouchDB starts). Now restart CouchDB. If you had an admin account, then log in as that user, or if you removed all of the old accounts, then click sign up to create a new one.

Cheers.