Seeing the _users database with CouchDB's Fauxton Browser application

Question

Is it possible to see the _users database/document with Fauxton (the CouchDB browser client)?

Even logged in as an admin, I'm unable to navigate to the _users database where members are stored. Is this a design decision or am I just being dense? Or both?

Answer 1

The default databases are created by a call to _cluster_setup with:

  {
    action: 'finish_cluster'
  }

Fauxton normally calls it either when you select Stand-alone or when you finish adding nodes to a cluster and select finalize.

The call triggers couchdb-setup to create the default cluster level databases:

  ["_users", "_replicator", "_global_changes"]