[GitHub] eiri commented on issue #1821: Cryptic error for chttpd_auth_cache:username

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eiri commented on issue #1821: Cryptic error for chttpd_auth_cache:username
URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1821#issuecomment-448842008
 
 
   This is not from a db's VDU, but from [auth_cache](https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/src/chttpd/src/chttpd_auth_cache.erl#L191). The field `username` of user's doc [has to have `org.couchdb.user:` prefix](https://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/intro/security.html?highlight=username#why-the-org-couchdb-user-prefix).
   
   This is not exactly a bug, more of exception not been handled gracefully, because assumption here is that validation on `_users` database should prevent creation of users without that prefix, so they can't get into the cache.
   
   @akircher Check out for a doc `e43caea614fb6e2250df47e4da043d64` in `_users` database or whatever database set in config's `[chttpd_auth]` as `authentication_db`.

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