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From: Daniel Munch <dani.munch@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 10:17:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: Command line only install of 2.0 (Linux)
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archived-at: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:17:36 -0000

Hi Dan,

in case you're talking about a single-node setup I agree, the
documentation isn't very clear on that. I recently submitted a pull
request which should make it more clear, but apparently it didn't make
it to the site yet:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/94/files?short_path=31ac1c6#diff-31ac1c6a7e05dc83bededf911e5b4807

So in a nutshell:
For a single-node setup, instead of using the wizard, you can also
manually configure an admin user in the config file like explained in
http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/config/auth.html#server-administrators

Afterwards you have to create the three system databases _users,
_replicator and _global_changes like explained in the doc. This is
equivalent to the setup wizard and can be carried out form the command
line.

Best,
Daniel

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Dan Ballance <tzewang.dorje@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> We've started using CouchDB recently and decided to start with your 2.0
> release. We're really loving the platform so far. We are trying to deploy
> CouchDB 2.0 with a configuration management application called Salt. I have
> a working configuration that does 99% of the install - although there
> appear to be a couple of final steps that need to be performed in a web
> browser which is not ideal from a config management PoV.
>
> So here are the final steps I have - please correct me if I am not doing
> this right. I saw an error in my logs which Googling brought me to this
> Hacker News thread:
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12545569
>
> The technique proposed seems to work fine. I go to
> http://hostname:5984/_utils, create an admin account and then proceed to
> the single server setup which completes the installation of the necessary
> database tables. So my question is:
>
> Is there any way to set up the admin account and trigger the database
> tables to be created without an administrator visiting the server in a web
> browser?
>
> many thanks in advance for your valuable time,
>
> Dan Ballance.