GitHub user indutny reopened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/67
couch_users_db: introduce public_users option When `couchdb.public_users` is set to `true`, getting `/_users/id` will return user document with sensitive information stripped. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/indutny/couchdb feature/public_users Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/67.patch ---- ----