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Posted to user@couchdb.apache.org by Tito Ciuro <ti...@apple.com> on 2016/07/21 19:03:40 UTC

Unable to login after setting up the admin password

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

Re: Unable to login after setting up the admin password

Posted by Tito Ciuro <ti...@apple.com>.
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 <ti...@apple.com> 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