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The "Security_Features_Overview" page has been changed by JanLehnardt: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Security_Features_Overview?action=diff&rev1=34&rev2=35 Comment: reader -> member If both the names and roles fields of either the admins or members properties are empty arrays, it means the database has no admins or members. Having no admins, only server admins (with the reserved _admin role) are able to update design document and make other admin level changes. Having no members, any user can write regular documents (any non-design document) and read documents from the database. - '''Note:''' If there are any reader names or roles defined for a database, then only authenticated users having a matching name or role are allowed to read documents from the database (or do a GET /db_name/ call). + '''Note:''' If there are any member names or roles defined for a database, then only authenticated users having a matching name or role are allowed to read documents from the database (or do a GET /db_name/ call). Each user name mentioned in a database security object refers to a user that is defined in the authentication database. The default name of this database is ''_users'' but it is configurable in the .ini configuration files:
