A comment regarding the anonymous creation feature for "_users"
database.... - while anonymous users are unable to get a list of all
_users, they are able to see "Number of documents" (users). Can this be
disabled?

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:45 AM, jumbo jim <[email protected]> wrote:

> Couchdb has a nice feature that allows anonymous users to write to the
> _users database. This allows new users to sign up. A logged in user (ie
> valid session) has the ability to update/change their password as they have
> update privileges to their *own* _user document.
>
> I envisage a scenario when I need to reset the password for a user as they
> have forgotten it.
>
> Is it possible to have a privileged user (but not admin) user that is
> permitted to make changes to other _user documents? (password changes)...
> but, at the same time still permitting anonymous creation of new documents?
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