>From 3.0 onward couchdb won’t even start unless there’s at least one admin >configured.
-- Robert Samuel Newson rnew...@apache.org On Mon, 4 May 2020, at 22:20, Bill Stephenson wrote: > Thank you Joan! > > It took me some time to figure our where those CouchDB config files are > on my Mac but I did get it back to “Admin Party” and got some testing > done. > > What I want to play with is configuring my web apps to use a locally > installed CouchDB instead of my internet based CouchDB server. I think > this can be a pretty cool option for end users. All their data is in > their hands and control and they have options to backup their data > onsite and offsite, and using 3rd party services. My initial tests show > my app to be a lot faster, which should be expected because it’s not > running over the internet at all. > > I’m not thinking using “Admin Party” is the best option, but it may be > the easiest for end users so I wanted to look at how that would work. > > With PouchDB.js I can create a DB for the user, and a “_user” file, and > some files in their DB that my apps use. I’ve not figured out how to > create a “_security” file for a user’s DB with PouchDB yet, but I’m not > sure I can’t. > > I know there are some issues using this approach. For example, before I > got my CouchDB back to "Admin Party” I had to create a form field that > contains the user’s CouchDB admin credentials. That’s not good. And > with "Admin Party” a web app could potentially grab all a user’s data. > > And there are surely some issues I don’t know of yet, but it’s a > pretty cool way to approach that component of developing and using web > apps if it can be secure and I’d like to work with it. > > Any thoughts on this? > > —Bill > > > > On May 3, 2020, at 2:51 PM, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Remove all admin users defined in [admins]. > > > > On 2020-05-03 3:23 p.m., Bill Stephenson wrote: > >> No, I want to play with it a bit to see how I can use it in Admin Party > >> mode (as if I just installed it). > >> —Bill > >>> On May 3, 2020, at 2:19 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Do you want to find the local.ini and put a new password in? It'll encode > >>> the plaintext password typed into the correct .ini field > >>> > >>> On Sun, May 3, 2020, 3:18 PM Bill Stephenson <b...@cherrypc.com.invalid> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Is there way to reset my CouchDB (2.3.0) to "Admin Party" that I > >>>> installed > >>>> on my Mac Mini? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -Bill > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >
