require admin for temporary view?

[Kevin R. Coombes]

Our local sysadmins (who are doing their best to train me to be 
paranoid) raised a question about couchdb applications. They  are 
worried about the potential for DoS attacks (and if they had their way, 
would disable all POST and PUT commands on everything...).

Is it possible to configure the server to require admin (or at least 
database admin) credentials in order to post a temporary view? Is it 
desirable?

    Kevin