dbeniteza opened a new issue, #4642: URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/4642
Hello, I've found an error on the documentation section [1.5.2.2. Creating a New User](https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/intro/security.html#creating-a-new-user). It is said "_Creating a new user is a very trivial operation. You just need to do a [PUT](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.4) request with the user’s data to CouchDB_" This is wrong, since the PUT method will try to create the _users database. The correct HTTP method is POST. Please correct this typo in the documentation. As a suggestion, it would help to explicitly include in this documentation section that this call must be done with an admin user. Consider including in the curl example something like this: ``` curl -X **POST** <admin_user>:<admin_password>@localhost:5984/_users/org.couchdb.user:jan \ -H "Accept: application/json" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"name": "jan", "password": "apple", "roles": [], "type": "user"}' ``` -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
