Author: rnewson Date: Thu Oct 14 13:56:23 2010 New Revision: 1022534 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1022534&view=rev Log: remove misleading Reader Access section. closes COUCHDB-496. Modified: couchdb/site/htdocs/docs/overview.html couchdb/site/htdocs/docs/overview.txt Modified: couchdb/site/htdocs/docs/overview.html URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/couchdb/site/htdocs/docs/overview.html?rev=1022534&r1=1022533&r2=1022534&view=diff ============================================================================== --- couchdb/site/htdocs/docs/overview.html (original) +++ couchdb/site/htdocs/docs/overview.html Thu Oct 14 13:56:23 2010 @@ -256,23 +256,6 @@ can create other administrator accounts documents are special documents containing view definitions and other special formulas, as well as regular fields and blobs.
-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.
-As documents written to disk, they can be validated dynamically by JavaScript Modified: couchdb/site/htdocs/docs/overview.txt URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/couchdb/site/htdocs/docs/overview.txt?rev=1022534&r1=1022533&r2=1022534&view=diff ============================================================================== --- couchdb/site/htdocs/docs/overview.txt (original) +++ couchdb/site/htdocs/docs/overview.txt Thu Oct 14 13:56:23 2010 @@ -198,24 +198,6 @@ can create other administrator accounts 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 -----------------