Creating New Admin Users into CouchDB

Creating New Admin Users

Let’s do another walk through the API using curl to see how CouchDB behaves when you add admin users.

> HOST="http://127.0.0.1:5984"
> curl -X PUT $HOST/database
{"ok":true}

When starting out fresh, we can add a database. Nothing unexpected. Now let’s create an admin user. We’ll call her anna, and her password is secret. Note the double quotes in the following code; they are needed to denote a string value for the configuration API (as we learned earlier):

curl -X PUT $HOST/_config/admins/anna -d '"secret"'
""

From: http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/security.html