step 2 is unnecessary, _users is already created on :5986 on startup if it's not present. the one you made on :5984 is simply never looked at for authentication docs, you can delete it.
On 17 March 2012 14:41, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> BigCouch's _users db is on port 5986 so that every node has a full >> local copy (so that authentication is a local operation). An update to >> the _users db will trigger replication to all the other nodes, so you >> only need to add the user once. >> >> B. >> > > Ah-ha--I think that was the missing piece. > > So I *think* what I have to do in my case based on some experimentation > with this on a clean VM is: > > * delete existing _users database (it was created via port 5984) > * create new _users database on port 5986 > * re-create user accounts > > On the clean VM I was messing with this morning nuking the _users database > didn't cause any issues but is there anything I should be aware of with > that process? > > Thanks for clarifying! > > -- > Matthew Woodward > [email protected] > http://blog.mattwoodward.com > identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward > > Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, > etc. as attachments. > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
