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Questions on CouchDB security for Android Devices (and iOS)

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Apr 14, 2011
Christian Polzer
Christian Polzer
Hi,

I just worked myself through a wiki article and blogposts regarding
CouchDB's security
(http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Security_Features_Overview).

Now I am wondering how this is done in Android. The Android platforms
security is relying on sandboxing applications, so config files can not be
stored every but the app directory or maybe the sd card attached.

As I learned, server admins are configured in a .ini file and the
require_valid_user settings as well.

I know, that uppon installation, CouchDB is storing a generated server
admin with password to the CouchDB application directory. How about the
other configuration files? 

Is  "require_valid_user" for example set to true by default( is this not
necessary?), or how is this solved? 

Regards,
Chris





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