Never mind! Turns out the file had the wrong permissions. Having corrected this issue, it worked beautifully.
-- Tito > On Jul 21, 2016, at 12:03 PM, Tito Ciuro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to lock down a CouchDB database and something it's not working > quite right. On the following page > (http://guide.couchdb.org/editions/1/en/security.html > <http://guide.couchdb.org/editions/1/en/security.html>) I see the following > text: > >> Instead of creating the admin user as we showed previously, you could have >> stopped CouchDB, opened your local.ini, added anna = secret to the [admins] >> section, and restarted CouchDB. > > > So I did that: > > 1) update my local.ini file and edit the [admins] section: > > [admins] > tito = letmein > > 2) Restart CouchDB and open Futon. Click "Login" at the bottom-right of the > window and enter the credential. > > The login screen presents the following error: "Error logging in: Name or > password is incorrect." > > Any idea why this is failing? Anything else I need to do? > > Thanks! > > -- Tito
