Thanks Gabor,

The DB is hosted on CouchOne/Couchbase so I cannot access the file
system. Do you mean I can delete the admin user in Futon's config
section, then recreate it?

The DB is in use for a web app so I don't want to disrupt it except
for a minute or so.

Thanks,

Marcus


On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Gabor Ratky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Edit the [admins] section of local.ini (usually at 
> /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini but depends on where you have couchdb 
> installed). You can just have "username = password" in plain text, CouchDB 
> will take care of hashing the password afterwards. Also, if you delete all 
> admin rows, you are back to admin party and you can set up a shiny new admin 
> user using Futon.
>
> Gabor
>
> On Friday, May 27, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Wordit wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to change an admin password in Futon? (Only one admin
>> user so far)
>>
>> What's the simplest way otherwise?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marcus
>
>

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