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Jason Smith updated COUCHDB-835:
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Comment: was deleted
(was: No-op refactor just to make subsequent patches easier to reason about.
This patch makes the code cleaner at any rate.)
> Whitelisting which config variables may be changed via HTTP
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> Key: COUCHDB-835
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-835
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: HTTP Interface
> Affects Versions: 1.0
> Environment: Linux, Erlang R13B03
> Reporter: Jason Smith
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments:
> 0001-Refactor-read-only-config-handlers-to-be-near-each-o.patch
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> A database rite of passage is partitioning responsibility into system
> administrators and DBAs. CouchDB has reached this point. Congratulations!
> The _config API allows changing the .ini file completely over authenticated
> HTTP, without requiring the CouchDB admin to log in to the server OS.
> Unfortunately, some configuration settings are OS-oriented (http.port,
> couchdb.view_index_dir); others are strictly database settings
> (uuids.algorithm); and still others must be decided case-by-case (log.level,
> couchdb.max_document_size).
> In short, CouchDB should support a whitelist, with which the system
> administrator can specify which _config values are may be modified by the
> DBA, and which are read-only.
> I propose that this whitelist is itself a config option,
> httpd.config_whitelist. If it is undefined, there is no whitelist and no
> change of behavior. If specified, the whitelist is an Erlang list of 2-tuples
> of the format:
> [{section1, key1}, {section2, key2}, {section_with_wildcard, "*"}, ...]
> When processing a PUT or DELETE, CouchDB confirms inclusion of the
> section/key in the whitelist.
> I foresee two modes of operation:
> * DBA is top dog: The whitelist includes {httpd,config_whitelist} itself.
> Thus the DBA may modified the list later over HTTP. The whitelist is just a
> safeguard against accidental changes.
> * Sysadmin is top dog: The whitelist does not include
> {httpd,config_whitelist}. The DBA is unable to change the list and may only
> ask politely for updates to the policy.
> (In any case, you can always edit the .ini file and _restart from the server
> OS.)
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