Eric, I think you should be able to add an admin user using the following curl:
curl -X PUT http://HOSTNAME:5984/_config/admins/USERNAME -d '"PASSWORD"' -Joe On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:44:32 -0400 eric casteleijn <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been struggling with this for a few hours, I googled around, > and looked in the testcases, but I can't seem to get it to work: > > What is the correct way of adding a user through http, and what is > the correct way of granting that user an admin role? > > The first surprise is that it seems to be: > > curl -X POST -d "username=thisfred2&password=password" > http://localhost:5984/_user > > rather than a JSON body. At least, this was suggested to me, and > works, or at least returns {"ok": "true"} (note the JSON) when the > user doesn't already exists. > > How do I now create an admin user, or make an existing user an admin? > > I think I'm just missing a few pieces of the puzzle, but perhaps > since it's a very small puzzle with not very many pieces to begin > with, this has me completely stumped. > -- Name: Joseph A. Williams Email: [email protected] Blog: http://www.joeandmotorboat.com/
