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Posted to commits@couchdb.apache.org by ra...@apache.org on 2012/02/21 08:13:40 UTC
[31/50] git commit: remove misleading Reader Access section. closes
COUCHDB-496.
remove misleading Reader Access section. closes COUCHDB-496.
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/site/htdocs@1022534 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/commit/2686fe05
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/tree/2686fe05
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/diff/2686fe05
Branch: refs/heads/htdocs
Commit: 2686fe0532c90ae4aabb55f08c29db6e92026b30
Parents: b5f87f0
Author: Robert Newson <rn...@apache.org>
Authored: Thu Oct 14 13:56:23 2010 +0000
Committer: Robert Newson <rn...@apache.org>
Committed: Thu Oct 14 13:56:23 2010 +0000
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docs/overview.html | 17 -----------------
docs/overview.txt | 18 ------------------
2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/blob/2686fe05/docs/overview.html
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diff --git a/docs/overview.html b/docs/overview.html
index 31cb5cd..81d73a5 100644
--- a/docs/overview.html
+++ b/docs/overview.html
@@ -256,23 +256,6 @@ can create other administrator accounts and update design documents. Design
documents are special documents containing view definitions and other special
formulas, as well as regular fields and blobs.</p>
-<h2>Reader Access</h2>
-
-<p>To protect document contents, CouchDB documents can have a reader list. This is
-an optional list of reader-names allowed to read the document. When a reader
-list is used, protected documents are only viewable by listed users.</p>
-
-<p>When a user accesses a database, the his/her credentials (name and password)
-are used to dynamically determine his reader names. The user credentials are
-input to a JavaScript function and the function returns a list of names for the
-user, or an error if the user credentials are wrong.</p>
-
-<p>When a document is protected by reader access lists, any user attempting to
-read the document must be listed. Reader lists are enforced in views too.
-Documents that are not allowed to be read by the user are dynamically filtered
-out of views, keeping the document row and extracted information invisible to
-non-readers.</p>
-
<h2>Update Validation</h2>
<p>As documents written to disk, they can be validated dynamically by JavaScript
http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/blob/2686fe05/docs/overview.txt
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diff --git a/docs/overview.txt b/docs/overview.txt
index 7100b36..5a8a260 100644
--- a/docs/overview.txt
+++ b/docs/overview.txt
@@ -198,24 +198,6 @@ can create other administrator accounts and update design documents. Design
documents are special documents containing view definitions and other special
formulas, as well as regular fields and blobs.
-Reader Access
--------------
-
-To protect document contents, CouchDB documents can have a reader list. This is
-an optional list of reader-names allowed to read the document. When a reader
-list is used, protected documents are only viewable by listed users.
-
-When a user accesses a database, the his/her credentials (name and password)
-are used to dynamically determine his reader names. The user credentials are
-input to a JavaScript function and the function returns a list of names for the
-user, or an error if the user credentials are wrong.
-
-When a document is protected by reader access lists, any user attempting to
-read the document must be listed. Reader lists are enforced in views too.
-Documents that are not allowed to be read by the user are dynamically filtered
-out of views, keeping the document row and extracted information invisible to
-non-readers.
-
Update Validation
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