[COUCHDB-1356] POST _session responds with name: null if _admin user and no _users doc present

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.1, 2.0.0, 1.6.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Robert Kowalski
• Reporter: Johannes J. Schmidt
• Created: 06/Dec/11 18:38
• Updated: 01/Nov/17 07:02
• Resolved: 25/Dec/14 23:06

Description

When logging in with admin credentials (and no corresponding _users doc, if that is important), the response of the POST to _session has the name property set to null:

{"ok":true,"name":null,"roles":["_admin"]}

It should be the name of the admin instead, like it does when logging in with a standard user:

{"ok":true,"name":"standarduser","roles":[]}

Requesting the _session object after logging in with an admin, the name is proper set:

{"ok":true,"userCtx":

{"name":"adminuser","roles":["_admin"]}

,"info":{"authentication_db":"_users","authentication_handlers":["oauth","cookie","default"],"authenticated":"cookie"}}

Johannes