1. enable in Fauxton couch_peruser settings to true manual settings in 2.1 do not work right now: http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.1.0/config/couch-peruser.html?highlight=_users 2. create a new user in fauxton or call/request via curl: curl -X PUT http://admin:bar@127.0.0.1:5984/_users/org.couchdb.user:foo \ -H "Accept: application/json" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"name": "foo", "password": "bar", "roles": [], "type": "user"}'

http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.1.0/intro/security.html?highlight=_users

#!/bin/bash AUTH='admin:adminpass' BASE64=`echo -n $AUTH | base64` echo $AUTH echo $BASE64 curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5984/_users/org.couchdb.user:foo \ -H "Accept: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: Basic $BASE64" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"name": "foo", "password": "bar", "roles": [], "type": "user"}' 29.10.17

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