Please read this http://docs.couchdb.org/en/1.6.1/intro/security.html#users-public-information, hope it help.
ermouth 2017-03-01 16:54 GMT+03:00 Nick <oinksoc...@letterboxes.org>: > Hello, > > I'm having a problem with a simple couchapp which has users. > > I want to prevent anonymous meddling with the _users database, so I have > an couchdb-wide admin user as described in the docs. > > However, I also want to allow anonymous users to see (via the app) what > users exist. However, I can't quite see how to do that, as anonymous users > are completely denied access to the _user database, even via views. > > Is this even possible? i..e. Allow access to a specific view generated > from _users, but not anything else? > > (I'm using couchdb v1.6.) > > > Thanks! > > Nick > >
