Okay brilliant, yes we are currently only using a single node. I'll take a look through this now - it looks like exactly what I need. Thank you!
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:17 AM Daniel Munch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > in case you're talking about a single-node setup I agree, the > documentation isn't very clear on that. I recently submitted a pull > request which should make it more clear, but apparently it didn't make > it to the site yet: > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/94/files?short_path=31ac1c6#diff-31ac1c6a7e05dc83bededf911e5b4807 > > So in a nutshell: > For a single-node setup, instead of using the wizard, you can also > manually configure an admin user in the config file like explained in > http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/config/auth.html#server-administrators > > Afterwards you have to create the three system databases _users, > _replicator and _global_changes like explained in the doc. This is > equivalent to the setup wizard and can be carried out form the command > line. > > Best, > Daniel > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Dan Ballance <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > We've started using CouchDB recently and decided to start with your 2.0 > > release. We're really loving the platform so far. We are trying to deploy > > CouchDB 2.0 with a configuration management application called Salt. I > have > > a working configuration that does 99% of the install - although there > > appear to be a couple of final steps that need to be performed in a web > > browser which is not ideal from a config management PoV. > > > > So here are the final steps I have - please correct me if I am not doing > > this right. I saw an error in my logs which Googling brought me to this > > Hacker News thread: > > > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12545569 > > > > The technique proposed seems to work fine. I go to > > http://hostname:5984/_utils, create an admin account and then proceed to > > the single server setup which completes the installation of the necessary > > database tables. So my question is: > > > > Is there any way to set up the admin account and trigger the database > > tables to be created without an administrator visiting the server in a > web > > browser? > > > > many thanks in advance for your valuable time, > > > > Dan Ballance. >
