Let's quickly try to access a database that has security enabled by passing the username and password with our request.
1. Open Terminal.
2. View all of the documents saved in the
_users
database by running the following command. Replaceusername
andpassword
with your admin's username and password.curl username:password@localhost:5984/_users/_all_docs
3. Terminal will respond with the same data that you saw before you added the authentication.
{ "_id": "org.couchdb.user:your_username", "_rev": "1-b9af54a7cdc392c2c298591f0dcd81f3", "name": "your_username", "password_sha": "3bc7d6d86da6lfed6d4d82e1e4d1c3ca587aecc8", "roles": [], "salt": "9812acc4866acdec35c903f0cc072c1d", "type": "user" }