1. create the user foo with password bar: curl -HContent-Type:application/json -vXPUT http://admin:passwordx@localhost:5984/_users/org.couchdb.user:me --data-binary '{"_id": "org.couchdb.user:me","name": "foo","roles": [],"type": "user","password": "bar"}' 2. create the database foo curl -vX PUT http://admin:passwordx@localhost:5984/foo

https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/How_to_create_users_via_script

after you can assign user security to the database: admin for admin for full access and modification and me as member to read and write to docs curl http://user:pass@localhost:5984/me/_security -X PUT -H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'accept: application/json' -d '{"admins":{"names":["admin"],"roles":["admin"]},"members":{"names": ["me"],"roles": []}}' 14.09.17

http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.1.0/api/database/security.html

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