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Subject: Re: unable to delete a document as an instance wide admin
From: Lajos Papp <lalyos@yahoo.com>
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:36:48 +0100
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To: user@couchdb.apache.org

thanks a lot Zach!

that was it. i was using the "swinger" presentation example couchapp,=20
and it had a bug in the validate_doc_update function, after fixing it
i was able to delete.

cheers,
lalyos


> You could be failing a validation. Have you defined any design
> documents with a validate_doc_update function for this database?
> =96Zach
>=20
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Lajos Papp <lalyos@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>=20
>> Im trying to delete a document as the instance wide admin both from =
futon and from command line via curl,
>> but this is what i get:
>>=20
>>> curl -X DELETE =
http://lalyos:iwonttellya@lalyos.couchone.com/somedb/someid?rev=3D6-e36e51=
2fa0ffa6e5b069f210d292a9fa
>> {"error":"forbidden","reason":"Sorry, you can only delete your own =
work."}
>>=20
>> as you can see the instance is at couchone.com, so i dont have acces =
to local.ini but i can see on futon's 'Configuration' page
>> lalyos listed as 'admins
>>=20
>> why is the database admin not able to delete a document?
>>=20
>> cheers,
>> lalyos