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Jan Lehnardt commented on COUCHDB-2191:
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I’d be in favour of this.
> Please consider including couchperuser in core
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> Key: COUCHDB-2191
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2191
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: public(Regular issues)
> Reporter: Nolan Lawson
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> I would love to be able to use CouchDB as the exclusive backend for all my
> webapps. The {{_users}} database with the automatic password salting/hashing
> and session cookies is brilliant, and saves a lot of developer effort while
> still ensuring I don't shoot myself in the foot trying to implement password
> security.
> However, without creating a database per user, it's impossible to silo user
> data in any way other than through {{validate_doc_update}} - i.e. every user
> can see everybody else's data, but they can only write to theirs. This use
> case does exist (e.g. Twitter), but it's much less common than the case where
> users can only read/write their own data.
> The plugin ecosystem is great and all, and I totally understand not wanting
> to include the kitchen sink in Couch core, but I strongly feel
> [couchperuser|https://github.com/etrepum/couchperuser] (or something like it)
> should be a checkbox I can tick in the Couch config, rather than a plugin I
> have to install manually. It's just too common of a use case in typical
> webapps.
> Some background: this was prompted by a [discussion in
> PouchDB|https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb/issues/1575]; Dale has written
> a fine solution in
> [couch-persona|https://github.com/daleharvey/couch-persona], but I really
> think the "why Pouch/Couch?" story would be more compelling if you could do
> it in pure Couch without an extra server process.
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