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Where do you add new (non admin) users?

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Tue, 06/19/2012 - 21:53
wintrmute
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Hi,
So I'm using Couchbase 1.8, and I have an Administrator user, and I can use Couchbase::Client to connect using those credentials and it's all good..

However I am used to *not* using admin logins in production code -- normally there's a limited user who can only access certain databases. How do I set that up using Couchbase? I can't find any user-administration pages in the web UI, nor do the scripts in /opt/couchbase/bin look promising..

Thanks in advance,
Toby

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Wed, 06/20/2012 - 10:48
mikew
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I don't believe that we have a way to add non-admin users for the web ui/rest interface. The reason at the moment is most likely that even if you could add more users they all would have the same privileges in regards to cluster operations. I will file an improvement for this though, you can follow it here:

http://www.couchbase.com/issues/browse/MB-5619

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Mon, 07/02/2012 - 21:48
wintrmute
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In that case.. how can I change the Administrator password after installation?

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Mon, 07/02/2012 - 21:49
wintrmute
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mikew wrote:
I don't believe that we have a way to add non-admin users for the web ui/rest interface. The reason at the moment is most likely that even if you could add more users they all would have the same privileges in regards to cluster operations. I will file an improvement for this though, you can follow it here:

http://www.couchbase.com/issues/browse/MB-5619

OK, so if it's not possible through the web UI.. could you point me to the documentation on how to add new users through the command-line interface?

Thanks

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Tue, 07/03/2012 - 21:52
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I eventually figured this out:

/opt/couchbase/bin/couchbase-cli cluster-init -u Administrator -p old_password -c 127.0.0.1:8091 --cluster-init-username=Administrator --cluster-init-password=new_password

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Thu, 07/05/2012 - 13:25
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Great, glad to see you found the answer.

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