On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Paul Hirst wrote:
>
> If I can avoid it I'd rather not have users really exist in the _users
> database but if this is unavoidable maybe I could create them on the fly?
Paul, I added users with existing logins to a couch db as needed. The
existing system in my
Hi folks!
In the last few months, between projects, I've been tinkering with ideas and
implementations for making map-reduce chains work.
I think my current direction is solid enough to share - and I hope to get
from you guys either encouragement, insight, or a "hold it, I have a much
better solut
>>> You could enable the proxy authentication handler;
>> 1. The roles don't appear to be included in the Token so how are they
>> validated? It sounds like the client could send whatever it liked? Only
>> the username is included in the token calculation.
> Why would youneed to validate roles? y
On Wednesday, October 19, 2011, Paul Hirst wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Robert Newson [mailto:rnew...@apache.org]
>> Sent: 19 October 2011 11:04
>> To: user@couchdb.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Authentication Question
>>
>> You could enable the proxy authentication handler;
>
> [sni
> -Original Message-
> From: Robert Newson [mailto:rnew...@apache.org]
> Sent: 19 October 2011 11:04
> To: user@couchdb.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Authentication Question
>
> You could enable the proxy authentication handler;
[snip]
I read about that but it wasn't clear to me how I could u
You could enable the proxy authentication handler;
%% @doc proxy auth handler.
%
% This handler allows creation of a userCtx object from a user
authenticated remotly.
% The client just pass specific headers to CouchDB and the handler
create the userCtx.
% Headers name can be defined in local.ini.
I think you can start by deploying your DB files in directories
protected by password (https) and use redirection in your server. Never
tried it.
Cheers,
CGS
On 10/19/2011 11:59 AM, Paul Hirst wrote:
Hi, I've been trying to read around this on the web but I just can't find an
answer which
Hi, I've been trying to read around this on the web but I just can't find an
answer which makes sense to me.
I would like to build a couch app and I would like to use an existing system to
do the authentication. I can build an interface on this other system to do
whatever is required to make th
