Github user rnewson commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/366#issuecomment-155102751
@kxepal in the delegated_auth code, an admin calls _delegated_auth and gets
a response body that includes a session cookie. the admin then gives that
session cookie to someone else to use. In this case, typically, the 'admin' is
a machine.
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