GitHub user indutny opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/67
couch_users_db: introduce public_users option
When `couchdb.public_users` is set to `true`, getting `/_users/id` will
return user document with sensitive information stripped.
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/indutny/couchdb feature/public_users
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/67.patch
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