[COUCHDB-1357] Authentication failure after updating password in user document

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Filipe David Borba Manana
• Created: 06/Dec/11 22:21
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 11:20
• Resolved: 17/Dec/11 11:20

Description

From the report at the users mailing list:

http://s.apache.org/9OG

Seems like after updating the password in a user doc, the user is not able to login with the new password unless Couch is restarted. Sounds like a caching issue.
The only case of getting the cache consistent with the _users database content is if the _users database processes crash and after the crash user documents are updated. The cache daemon is ignoring the database crash.

The following patch updates the daemon to monitor the _users database and crash (letting the supervisor restart it) if the database process crashes.
Etap test included.

This might be related to COUCHDB-1212.