Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-commits-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 91000 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2009 00:24:54 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 21 Apr 2009 00:24:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 44154 invoked by uid 500); 21 Apr 2009 00:24:54 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-commits-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 44062 invoked by uid 500); 21 Apr 2009 00:24:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact commits-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list commits@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 44053 invoked by uid 500); 21 Apr 2009 00:24:53 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-commits@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 44048 invoked by uid 99); 21 Apr 2009 00:24:53 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:24:53 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2000.0 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [140.211.11.130] (HELO eos.apache.org) (140.211.11.130) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:24:52 +0000 Received: from eos.apache.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eos.apache.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE40118BB for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:24:32 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Apache Wiki To: couchdb-commits@incubator.apache.org Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:24:32 -0000 Message-ID: <20090421002432.2371.3521@eos.apache.org> Subject: [Couchdb Wiki] Update of "Security Features Overview" by SamuelWan X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Couchdb Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by SamuelWan: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Security_Features_Overview ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An overview of security features focusing on what CouchDB provides out of the box. === Authentication === - CouchDB ships with basic authentication that compares user credentials to Admin accounts. See Setting_up_an_Admin_account for more details. + CouchDB ships with basic authentication that compares user credentials to Admin accounts. See ["Setting up an Admin account"] for more details. You can specify a custom authentication handler and the web authentication scheme in the configuration file. The example below specifies that CouchDB will use the default_authentication_handler method defined in the [http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/couchdb/trunk/src/couchdb/couch_httpd.erl?view=markup couch_httpd] module: @@ -15, +15 @@ Other notes: The "null_authentication_handler" in "couch_httpd" allows any user credentials to run as admin. Web servers such as Apache or Nginx can also provide an authentication layer as a reverse-proxy to CouchDB. === Authorization === - CouchDB supports one role, the "admin" group, which can execute any of the HTTP API on any database in the CouchDB instance. See Setting_up_an_Admin_account for more details. + CouchDB supports one role, the "admin" group, which can execute any of the HTTP API on any database in the CouchDB instance. See ["Setting up an Admin account"] for more details. CouchDB does not support other roles at this time. Support for read access restriction is planned for the 1.0 release.