Forgot Username / Pwd to CouchDB

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Does anyone know how can I reset the username and password for CouchDB ?

Hope this help :- http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/security.html — ajreal, Mar 19 '12 at 06:34
Yes, you are right i was just playing around what all options are there in couchDB. Can you please provide few reference/resource i should look to start with,if you have an idea ? — linktoarun, Mar 27 '12 at 11:19

score 21 · Answer 1 · answered May 13 '13 at 14:40

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This worked for me: while couchdb is stopped,

clear the [admin] section in your */etc/couchdb/local.ini
delete the _users.couch database (located in */var/lib/couchdb/)

This will reset the user database to factory defaults (admin party!) and wipe all of couchdb's user accounts. There might be a more subtle way

answered May 13 '13 at 14:40

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Works great, thanks a lot. A word of WARNING: This is very useful for development and test databases without any real users. If you do this on a production database all your user accounts will be gone, which is a BAD thing ;) – Jun 09 '13 at 20:46
I did that, how do i restart the couchdb now. It still says you are not an admin when trying to restart db using curl – Utsav Gupta Mar 05 '15 at 23:54

Eric Drechsel · Answer 2 · 2015-06-03T18:24:21.623

With Apache CouchDB, admin accounts passwords can be changed by editing a file local.ini in the CouchDB config folder (/etc/couchdb/ on most Linux installs). [1]

Look for the [admin] section, which will list the all admin usernames, along with their hashed passwords:

[admin]
foo = -pbkdf2-0e0e83f911c970565fc988497a657bdc21a005e8,19ecef0bea1caf8d7f08fb791379c686,10

Replace the password hash with a new clear text password:

foo = bar

Now restart CouchDB (sudo restart couchdb on Ubuntu). CouchDB will notice the clear text password on startup and automatically replace it with the hashed version.

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 21 '12 at 14:14

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What I've done it's quite simple. I found out my old username and password here:

/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/config/config.dat

After that I went to opt/couchbase/bin/ and run

./couchbase-cli cluster-init -c localhost:8091 -u old_user -p old_password --cluster-init-username=new_user --cluster-init-password=new_password

Done! Also you can check this: http://www.couchbase.com/docs/couchbase-manual-2.0/couchbase-faq.html

answered Aug 21 '12 at 14:14

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With welcome! If it solve your problem, you can accept this answer :) – vtemian Aug 29 '12 at 08:44
i forgot both id as well as password so what should i do ? – M.Raheel Sep 29 '14 at 09:43
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Couchbase is not exactly the same thing as CouchDB. – MrYellow Jan 12 '15 at 01:18

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 14 '14 at 17:20

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For mac users, base folder is /Library/Application Support/couchdb

answered Nov 14 '14 at 17:20

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Or more likely `~/Library/Application Support/couchdb`, unless you installed CouchDB as root – adamvert Jun 22 '15 at 08:07
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And if you used Homebrew to install it, the local.ini is at `/usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini`. – adamvert Jun 22 '15 at 08:13

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 01 '15 at 14:51

One more point to add ...

If you are running Couch DB on Windows, then probably it was installed as a service and to reset it you need to stop service first, within running service other answers do not work.

http://www.7tutorials.com/what-are-windows-services-what-they-do-how-manage-them

Open Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services and stop Apache Couch DB

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 02 '14 at 16:13

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for Unix: http://silviud.blogspot.com/2012/10/couchbase-recover-web-console-password.html

/opt/couchbase/bin/erl \
-noinput -eval \
'case file:read_file("/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/config/config.dat") of {ok, B}  ->     io:format("~p~n", [binary_to_term(B)]) end.' \
-run init stop | grep cred

answered Dec 02 '14 at 16:13

ConAim

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This one worked for retrieving my current password without resetting. Thanks ConAim. – nohup Apr 10 '15 at 15:05

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 04 '16 at 13:15

You just need to add the username and password in CouchDB local.ini file. You can add as many administrators as you want.

sudo nano /etc/couchdb/local.ini

and in the end of file, add username and password.

And don't forget to restart the CouchDB server. sudo service couchdb restart

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 23 '16 at 23:51

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On Mac OS X, cbreset_password is not in PATH by default, so I've done just:

"/Applications/Couchbase Server.app/Contents/Resources/couchbase-core/bin/cbreset_password" 127.0.0.1:8091

...and re-set the password once confirming yes

answered Mar 23 '16 at 23:51

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The cli has since been removed and replaced with `couchbase-cli`. Use this one instead, supply "newpassword": `$> /Applications/Couchbase Server.app/Contents/Resources/couchbase-core/bin/couchbase-cli reset-admin-password --new-password newpassword` – RudyD Oct 23 '19 at 16:16

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Aug 24 '18 at 21:49

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You can change couchbase localhost password by using following steps: 1. Install crul(for windows) 2. curl -u Administrator:password http://localhost:8091/controller/changePassword -d password=admin123

answered Aug 24 '18 at 21:49

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score 0 · Answer 10 · edited Feb 24 '21 at 22:36

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ubuntu 20.04 :

apt purge couchdb

apt install couchdb

was the only thing that worked for me.

edited Feb 24 '21 at 22:36

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answered Feb 24 '21 at 13:44

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Oct 15 '21 at 23:57

If using 3.2, CouchDB server administrators and passwords in the last [admins] section that CouchDB finds when loading its ini files:

/opt/couchdb/etc/local.ini or
/opt/couchdb/etc/local.d/10-admins.ini

Don't forget to restart CouchDB: sudo systemctl restart couchdb (if using ubuntu)

source: https://docs.couchdb.org/en/3.2.0/config/auth.html

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