2011/7/11 Jonathan Geddes <[email protected]>: >> Fortunately, users with write access are not admins. They may not >> modify design documents. All of their changes are subject to design >> documents' validate_doc_update() function. > > I would be *overjoyed* to hear that you are right and the documentation at > [0] is wrong: >> database admins - Defined per database. They have all the privileges > readers have plus the privileges: write (and edit) design documents, > add/remove database admins and readers, set the database revisions limit > > (/somedb/_revs_limit API) and execute temporary views against the database > (/somedb/_temp_view API). They can not create a database and neither delete > a database.
"Users with write access", are users authorized by the validation_doc_update functions in the design documents of the database: http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/security.html#validation Marcello
