How do I remove an admin user from a CouchDB database?

Question

I know I can use the command:

curl -X PUT http://admin:[email protected]:5984/_config/admins/admin -d '"password"'

to add a new admin to the server. How do I go about removing an admin user?

Answer 1

You should be able to DELETE the user admin that you setup with:

curl -X DELETE http://admin:[email protected]:5984/_config/admins/admin

Note this is a bad example as you're deleting the user that you're authenticating as. The last part of the URL admin is the name of the user.