commit | 222a83f4e8a55517f991a98826b7ef02eae96355 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com> | Thu Jul 31 21:20:33 2014 -0700 |
committer | Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com> | Thu Jul 31 21:20:33 2014 -0700 |
tree | 17ec5936dfdbd60526723d4bb1329537f9dcd00e | |
parent | 3859df3dd487476373eb6aa1e834997060067acb [diff] |
fix leak
couchperuser is a CouchDB daemon that ensures that a private per-user database exists for each document in _users. These databases are writable only by the corresponding user.
Currently this is very much purpose-built for CodeCosmos. Databases are in the form:
userdb-{hex encoded username}
For example, the user bob
will have a database named userdb-626f62
.
The reason for hex encoding is that CouchDB usernames have no restrictions, but CouchDB databases have restrictions. Hex encoding the UTF-8 representation of the username is a transformation that's easy to correctly implement in just about any language, especially JavaScript and Erlang. Other encodings would be possible, but would require additional client and server-side code to support that encoding. This is the simplest scheme that is obviously correct.