You shouldn't need to make couchdb a sudoer. If you change the directory permissions to allow writing by the couchdb user you should be able to do something like:
$ sudo "su - couchdb && couchdb" There's probably a cleaner way to do that. You can also do something like: $ sudo $PATH/etc/init.d/couchdb start HTH, Paul Davis On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jan, > > I've followed the new install instructions for couchdb. Ended up installing > latest Erlang from source. Not exactly my cup of tea. > > I also followed your security suggestions and created a couchdb user. > > So far so good. > > Only problem now is sudo won't give me permission to run: > > sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb -b > > Do you happen to know what I need to insert into /etc/sudoer to make it > happen? > > Thanks, > > Lloyd > > > >
