Hi,

Thank you for your answer ! I'll give it a try but I was expecting a native
issue. Let's see if someone else have already faced this problem. I'd be
suprised if it was not supported.

Max.

Le 13 janv. 2017 5:51 PM, "Martin Broerse" <[email protected]> a
écrit :

> Hi Max,
>
> I am thinking about doing something similar with openWhisk. You can create
> a "users-to-delete" database only some users can write usernames to. On
> change to this database an openWhisk Action can delete the usernames
> specified in this "users-to-delete" database with full admin rights and
> remove the usernames on success.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> - Martin
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:15 PM, max <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I need to allow some users to delete other users without being a CouchDB
> > Administrator. To do that I updated _users/_design/_auth to change the
> > '_admin' check to:
> > if ((userCtx.roles.indexOf('_admin') !== -1) ||
> > (userCtx.roles.indexOf('manager') !== -1 &&
> > userCtx.roles.indexOf(oldDoc.databases[0]) !== -1) ||
> >             (userCtx.name == oldDoc.name)) {
> >             return;
> >         } else {
> >             throw ({
> >                 forbidden: 'Only admins may delete other user docs.'
> >             });
> >         }
> > It works but sometimes CouchDB reset this _design/_auth document. I've
> read
> > in doc this design doc cannot be modified but I couldn't find another way
> > to achieve this.
> > Is there a way to prevent CouchDB to do that ?  Or another way to do what
> > I'm trying to do ?
> > I'm using CouchDB 1.4.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Max.
> >
>

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