Changing user name and password in CouchDB _user database

Question

I am using jquery.couch.js to do signup/login/logout to a CouchDB _users database in my Sproutcore application. Is anyone aware of a method for changing user _id and password?

Answer 1

As far as I know the user id cannot be changed but the password can.

The CouchDB documentation describes the process of changing a user password in detail, short:

• Get the org.couchdb.user:<myuser> document

• Add a password field with the plaintext password

• Store the document back to the _users database

As soon as the document is in the database, the CouchDB rehashes the plaintext password using PBKDF2 (at least since CouchDB 1.3).