On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:41 PM, J Chris Anderson <jchris@apache.org> wrote:
> This is pretty much how the built-in auth works. Jan is working on a document here:
>
> http://wiki.couchapp.org/page/authn-preview

Thanks for this link. It really helped.

> The other thing to do is just use the signup and login buttons on Futon to do the same thing. Look in the lower right corner of http://localhost:5984/_utils/

Yes, I thought about using that code. I actually wanted an API with
which my other modules could login to couchdb. I was sort of trying to
get ejabberd, drupal etc. to use couchdb's user database. Sort of a
single sign-on thingy.

Regards,
Mahendra

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