Github user kxepal commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/pull/575#discussion_r45270468
--- Diff: app/addons/auth/components.react.jsx ---
@@ -219,17 +218,17 @@ define([
render: function () {
return (
<div className="auth-page">
- <h3>Create Admins</h3>
+ <h3>Create User Accounts with ADMIN Privileges</h3>
<p>
- Before a server admin is configured, all clients have admin
privileges. This is fine when
- HTTP access is restricted to trusted users. <strong>If
end-users will be accessing this
- CouchDB, you must create an admin account to prevent
accidental (or malicious) data
- loss.</strong>
+ Before an admin user account is created for this CouchDB
server instance,
+ all clients have ADMIN privileges. <strong>If clients are not
trusted users,
+ you must create an admin account to prevent accidental or
malicious data loss.</strong>
</p>
<p>
- Server admins can create and destroy databases, install and
update _design documents, run
- the test suite, and edit all aspects of CouchDB configuration.
+ Users with ADMIN privileges can create, modify, and delete
databases and design documents;
+ run the test suite; and modify the CouchDB configuration.
Users without ADMIN privileges
+ have read/write access to all databases. CouchDB can be
configured to block access by anonymous users.
--- End diff --
I think such sentence requires a link to somewhere to answer on upcoming
question: "That's great! How?".
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