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Paul Capestany updated COUCHDB-1588:
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Description:
When spinning up a DB per user (or multiple DBs per user), it could be a matter
of privacy what the DBs are named if any registered user can get a list of all
of the DBs by simply doing a _all_dbs request. Similarly, for a successful app,
competitors could use _all_dbs to get potentially very important info about how
many users you have, growth rate, etc.
So, instead of trying to deal with this _all_dbs request issue via "_all_dbs
should list only the DBs accessible to the user"
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-661), why not just limit the
response to only server admins?
was:
When spinning up a DB per user (or multiple DBs per user), it could be a matter
of privacy what the DBs are named by any registered user simply doing a
_all_dbs request. Similarly, for a successful app, competitors could use
_all_dbs to get potentially very important info about how many users you have,
growth rate, etc.
So, instead of trying to deal with this _all_dbs request issue via "_all_dbs
should list only the DBs accessible to the user"
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-661), why not just limit the
response to only server admins?
> Only respond to _all_dbs request from server admin
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> Key: COUCHDB-1588
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1588
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 1.2
> Reporter: Paul Capestany
> Priority: Minor
>
> When spinning up a DB per user (or multiple DBs per user), it could be a
> matter of privacy what the DBs are named if any registered user can get a
> list of all of the DBs by simply doing a _all_dbs request. Similarly, for a
> successful app, competitors could use _all_dbs to get potentially very
> important info about how many users you have, growth rate, etc.
> So, instead of trying to deal with this _all_dbs request issue via "_all_dbs
> should list only the DBs accessible to the user"
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-661), why not just limit the
> response to only server admins?
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