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[jira] [Closed] (COUCHDB-1588) Only respond to _all_dbs request from server admin

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1588?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Dave Cottlehuber closed COUCHDB-1588.
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    Resolution: Duplicate
    
> Only respond to _all_dbs request from server admin
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1588
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1588
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 1.2
>            Reporter: Paul Capestany
>            Priority: Minor
>
> When spinning up a DB per user (or multiple DBs per user), it could be a matter of privacy what the DBs are named if any registered user can get a list of all of the DBs by simply doing a _all_dbs request. Similarly, for a successful app, competitors could use _all_dbs to get potentially very important info about how many users you have, growth rate, etc.
> So, instead of trying to deal with this _all_dbs request issue via "_all_dbs should list only the DBs accessible to the user" (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-661), why not just limit the response to only server admins?

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