Continuous Replication with Credentials?

[Daniel Hopkins <ds...@earthlink.net>]

Hi folks,  CouchDb Noob here..
couchdb-1.6.0

I'm trying to setup replication such that it persists across restarts.
My understanding to do this I must add a Document to: _replicator

In addition I have created an admin account: admin:password

if create the document like:

|{
    "|source|":|"http://admin:password@SOURCE_HOST:5984/test"|,
    "|target|":|"http://admin:password@TARGET_HOST:5984/test"|,
    "|create_target|":|true|,
    "|continuous|":|true|,
}|

it works..(which is good :)

my question is:
if I create the replication doc like:

|{
    "|source|":|"test"|,
    "|target|":|"http://admin:password@TARGET_HOST:5984/test"|,
    "|create_target|":|true|,
    "|continuous|":|true|,
}|

it will fail, as it has no credentials to read 'test' even though the 
process is running locally.
I noticed as well that when using the http form for the source, that 
couchdb shows 'get' requests every x seconds for the replication..is there
a way to specify credentials without using the http form on the source?? 
(I tried un:pd@sourceDbName..didnt work)

Thanks
Dan

Re: Continuous Replication with Credentials?

[Dave Cottlehuber <dc...@jsonified.com>]

 
> Hi folks, CouchDb Noob here..
> couchdb-1.6.0
>  
> I'm trying to setup replication such that it persists across restarts.
> My understanding to do this I must add a Document to: _replicator
>  
> In addition I have created an admin account: admin:password
>  
> if create the document like:
>  
> |{
> "|source|":|"http://admin:password@SOURCE_HOST:5984/test"|,
> "|target|":|"http://admin:password@TARGET_HOST:5984/test"|,
> "|create_target|":|true|,
> "|continuous|":|true|,
> }|
>  
> it works..(which is good :)
>  
> my question is:
> if I create the replication doc like:
>  
> |{
> "|source|":|"test"|,
> "|target|":|"http://admin:password@TARGET_HOST:5984/test"|,
> "|create_target|":|true|,
> "|continuous|":|true|,
> }|
>  
> it will fail, as it has no credentials to read 'test' even though the
> process is running locally.
> I noticed as well that when using the http form for the source, that
> couchdb shows 'get' requests every x seconds for the replication..is there
> a way to specify credentials without using the http form on the source??
> (I tried un:pd@sourceDbName..didnt work)
>  
> Thanks
> Dan
>  

Hey Dan,  

As Jens mentioned, try this:  

POST /your_couch/_replicator  
{
_id: “replication_id”,
source: “here”,
target: “there”,
continuous:true,
owner:”admin",
roles:["_admin”]
}


A+
Dave

Re: Continuous Replication with Credentials?

[Jens Alfke <je...@couchbase.com>]

According to the old CouchDB wiki*, a replication doc can have an "owner" property to indicate the local user that owns it; presumably it will use the credentials of that user when accessing the local database.

—Jens

* http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication#Replicator_database