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The "Security_Features_Overview" page has been changed by SebastianCohnen. The comment on this change is: fixed header. http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Security_Features_Overview?action=diff&rev1=9&rev2=10 -------------------------------------------------- An overview of security features focusing on what CouchDB provides out of the box. - === Authentication === + == Authentication == CouchDB ships with basic authentication that compares user credentials to Admin accounts. See [[Setting_up_an_Admin_account]] for more details. You can specify a custom authentication handler and the web authentication scheme in the configuration file. The example below specifies that CouchDB will use the default_authentication_handler method defined in the [[http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/couchdb/trunk/src/couchdb/couch_httpd.erl?view=markup|couch_httpd]] module: @@ -17, +17 @@ Other notes: The "null_authentication_handler" in "couch_httpd" allows any user credentials to run as admin. Web servers such as Apache or Nginx can also provide an authentication layer as a reverse-proxy to CouchDB. - === Authorization === + == Authorization == CouchDB supports one role, the "admin" group, which can execute any of the HTTP API on any database in the CouchDB instance. See [[Setting_up_an_Admin_account]] for more details. CouchDB does not support other roles at this time. Support for read access restriction is planned for the 1.0 release. - === Validation === + == Validation == See [[Document_Update_Validation]].
