couchdb user manager GUI

Question

I'm currently using couchdb hosted on cloudant (thanks cloudant guys! You're great!). I've many users in my database (which is here), and now I manage them maually: I've a script on my linux box which generates users/pass json object, like that

{
    "_id": "org.couchdb.user:MY_USER",
    "_rev": "1-7aXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX2783",
    "name": "MY_USER",
    "type": "user",
    "roles": ["admin"],
    "password_sha": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    "salt": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
}

(removed real string and substituded with 'XXX...' of course).

I then paste this object in the _user database and everything works fine.

However, as it happens to frequently to remove, update user information, I was wandering if anybody created a couchdb GUI for user management. Something really simple, like the phpmyadmin GUI:

I googled and stackoverflowed around to search for something like this, but found nothing.

Does something like that already exist?

(and if not, do you think there is a special reason? Couchdb is widespread and I don't think I'm the first one who had to face this issue...).

Answer 1

Currently the most easy and common way to edit and maintain user information is from the couchdb admin gui called futon. You can access it at

http://localhost:5984/_utils/database.html?_users

While it is not an ideal user management tool, it gets the job done.

I have not seen a nice gui for doing the user management. It is a good idea. We are currently in the process of working on the next admin gui for couchdb called 'fauxton' were we will try and make this more user friendly.