I cannot verify that it's a breaking change, from my tests both has the same effect: "members" and "readers" in _security. So my guess is that "readers" is deprecated, but still working?
-- Gregor Martynus On Monday, 12. November 2012 at 13:09, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > > On Nov 12, 2012, at 12:45 , Gregor Martynus <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > In the docs, two groups are mentioned that have a meaning in the _security > > object, "admins" and "readers": > > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Security_Features_Overview#Authorization > > > > But when I update the _security object using futon in CouchDB 1.2, a > > "members" group gets created, instead of "readers". > > > > Is one of these deprecated? Are they interchangeable? Is there a reference > > of all possible settings for the _security object? > > The change was made here: > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1039619 > > I believe this is in 1.2.0 only, and not mentioned in > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Breaking_changes#Changes_Between_1.1.0_and_1.2.0 > or the wiki, which we should totally fix. > > Could you verify and update the two wiki pages? > > Cheers > Jan > -- > >
