This is currently how it works yeah.
I believe the current recommendation for user management is to effectively
ignore the permissions matrix in the _users database and instead wrap CouchDB
in your own permissions management.
Stefan
> On 22 Sep 2017, at 17:36, max <maxima...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying CouchDB 2.1 and facing an (strange?) issue. I have given
> admin access through "Permissions" to "user1" and every user with the
> role "manager". This allowed these users to call view from _design in
> _users database. But this is not enough to delete other users, to do
> that user have to be a super CouchDB Admin. Is this the expected
> behavior? I got "Only admins may delete other user docs" whereas he is
> admin.
>
> This is my _users database permissions:
>
> {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"Authentication
> required.","admins":{"names":["user1"],"roles":["manager"]}}
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Max.
