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ASF GitHub Bot commented on COUCHDB-1356: ----------------------------------------- GitHub user robertkowalski opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-couch/pull/16 Return username on POST to /_session When logging in with admin credentials and no user doc is present, the name was `null`. Example: `{"ok":true,"name":null,"roles":["_admin"]}` closes COUCHDB-1356 You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/robertkowalski/couchdb-couch COUCHDB-1356-auth-session Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-couch/pull/16.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #16 ---- commit e109ff8f2be5f3ea1ae221279975c9e1ef75b851 Author: Robert Kowalski <r...@kowalski.gd> Date: 2014-11-23T15:34:58Z Return username on POST to /_session When logging in with admin credentials and no user doc is present, the name was `null`. Example: `{"ok":true,"name":null,"roles":["_admin"]}` closes COUCHDB-1356 ---- > POST _session responds with name: null if _admin user and no _users doc > present > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: COUCHDB-1356 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1356 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 1.1.1, 2.0.0, 1.6.1 > Reporter: Johannes J. Schmidt > Assignee: Robert Kowalski > Priority: Minor > > When logging in with admin credentials (and no corresponding _users doc, if > that is important), the response of the POST to _session has the name > property set to null: > {"ok":true,"name":null,"roles":["_admin"]} > It should be the name of the admin instead, like it does when logging in with > a standard user: > {"ok":true,"name":"standarduser","roles":[]} > Requesting the _session object after logging in with an admin, the name is > proper set: > {"ok":true,"userCtx":{"name":"adminuser","roles":["_admin"]},"info":{"authentication_db":"_users","authentication_handlers":["oauth","cookie","default"],"authenticated":"cookie"}} > Johannes -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)