Chris, and other interested devs: I have become a CouchDB Evangelist for our development group (100+ developers) and I'll be giving a presentation in January to many decision makers.
One of my weaknesses in web development is working with authentication and that has been one of the main lynch pins in my discussions. I would like to write some documentation to help out with the couch effort of evangelizing how to authenticate and secure a CouchDB installation, maybe a best practices piece. In order to write something like that I have to learn it, and from experience as a noob I find that learning while writing can work out pretty well because I don't assume as much knowledge on the part of the reader. Is there already some documentation describing how to set up authentication for couch? Maybe with this group we could come up with a list of scenarios... 1) Behind an Apache Proxy 2) Other proxies? 3) Basic Auth (I've seen some info in your book) 4) LDAP Steveo On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Devs, > > > > I'm attempting to make more sense of CouchDB's authentication system. > > The current system is a proverbial ball of spaghetti. I'm still in the > > investigation stage of my work, and I'm writing this to clarify my > > thoughts and solicit feedback. > > > > http://github.com/jchris/couchdb/tree/account > > Just a note to say that this branch is nearly done. I'd love some review. > > To use it, visit Futon and look in the lower-right corner. > > Before merging I still need to remove extra log statements, etc. > > Feedback welcome! > > Chris > > -- > Chris Anderson > http://jchrisa.net > http://couch.io > -- Steveo Steven Douglas Olson [email protected]
