Just noticed this might be the same as COUCHDB-3098

Actually, disregard this issue. In my configuration, I was using port 5984 which was the chttpd port. I was applying all my permissions on [couch_httpd_auth], which was running on port 5986.

Changing my local.ini to

```
[chttpd]
bind_address = 127.0.0.1
port = 5984

[httpd]
bind_address = 0.0.0.0
port = 5986

[couchdb]
uuid = myuuid

[admins]
root = mypassword

[couch_httpd_auth]
require_valid_user = true
secret = mysecret
```

And pointing to port 5986 resolved the issue.

I think it's not not a bug, but still a bug either in user expectations or lack chttpd option to require valid user. 5986 is a backdoor port that should not be available for public.

This looks to be a "bug" in expectation, lack of documentation, unexpected config name or some combination of any or all of those. Looking in the source code for chttpd, it looks like it is looking for the config option under chttpd. (https://github.com/apache/couchdb-chttpd/blob/master/src/chttpd_auth.erl#L51) To me this was unexpected as I would have expected a matching [couch_chttpd_auth] block to the [couch_httpd_auth] block

So expectation is that the following would work based on other config options and lack of documentation:

[couch_chttpd_auth]
require_valid_user = true

However, from source code and trial on my couchdb 2.0 setup, the following did work as expected to require a valid user on port 5984:

[chttpd]
require_valid_user = true

Not sure if best way to fix is to change config option name or simply add documentation in the configuration section in the online help and possibly in the default config files provided with the build. Just wanted to add my observations to anyone else coming across this issue.

This just cost me a couple of hours. There is absolutely no way to garner this from the documentation, not even when very specifically searching for either "chttpd" or "require_valid_user". The documentation seems to be shockingly out of date regarding this. I was quite happy with the documentation until now, but now I am wondering what else is missing. O_O

I've just run into this. Appears that the setting `couch_httpd_auth.require_valid_user` in couch 1.6.1 has changed to `chttpd.require_valid_user` in couch 2.

Our default.ini file is clearly out of date. I'll take this one.

Commit 96d10a9046f829802443fff799f9fff061b8c415 in couchdb's branch refs/heads/COUCHDB-3100 from Joan Touzet
[ https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb.git;h=96d10a9 ]

Clarify & correct require_valid_user setting

Fixes COUCHDB-3100

Joan Touzet thanks for the fix! The auto-generated git link (https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb.git;h=96d10a9) seems to be broken though, so I can't see the change. Is this a known issue?

I found the commit at https://github.com/apache/couchdb/commit/96d10a9046f829802443fff799f9fff061b8c415. Github says that this repo is a mirror of git://git.apache.org/couchdb.git, but that seems to be down. Is https://github.com/apache/couchdb the official repo now?

Commit 61dfa53951736aeb2dcb30605d4ac14ef797301b in couchdb-documentation's branch refs/heads/COUCHDB-3100 from Joan Touzet
[ https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb-documentation.git;h=61dfa53 ]

Update documentation for require_valid_user

Fixes COUCHDB-3100

Alex Anderson The official repo is at https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git - but integration with GitHub is now tighter. Unfortunately Apache Infrastructure tells me they can't easily change that reflection. They have filed a ticket to fix the emailed git links to JIRA, though - thank you for reporting it!

Once the 2 Pull Requests are approved (couchdb, couchdb-documentation) you'll be able to see the updated documentation at https://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/ . They will be rolled into the next official release.

Thank you for the bug report!

Commit 61dfa53951736aeb2dcb30605d4ac14ef797301b in couchdb-documentation's branch refs/heads/master from Joan Touzet
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Update documentation for require_valid_user

Fixes COUCHDB-3100

Commit 66633faa717a6dee4848889e5a4023a95c22e24b in couchdb-documentation's branch refs/heads/master from Joan Touzet
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Merge pull request #127 from apache/COUCHDB-3100

Update documentation for require_valid_user

Commit 96d10a9046f829802443fff799f9fff061b8c415 in couchdb's branch refs/heads/master from Joan Touzet
[ https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb.git;h=96d10a9 ]

Clarify & correct require_valid_user setting

Fixes COUCHDB-3100

Commit a9dd4c4cc86634e4bd9c0ec7d947c12e467d1c7f in couchdb's branch refs/heads/master from Joan Touzet
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Merge pull request #478 from apache/COUCHDB-3100

Clarify & correct require_valid_user setting

Documentation updated to reflect reality.

Commit a9dd4c4cc86634e4bd9c0ec7d947c12e467d1c7f in couchdb's branch refs/heads/63012-scheduler from Joan Touzet
[ https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb.git;h=a9dd4c4 ]

Merge pull request #478 from apache/COUCHDB-3100

Clarify & correct require_valid_user setting

Commit 61dfa53951736aeb2dcb30605d4ac14ef797301b in couchdb-documentation's branch refs/heads/63012-scheduler from Joan Touzet
[ https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb-documentation.git;h=61dfa53 ]

Update documentation for require_valid_user

Fixes COUCHDB-3100

Commit 66633faa717a6dee4848889e5a4023a95c22e24b in couchdb-documentation's branch refs/heads/63012-scheduler from Joan Touzet
[ https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb-documentation.git;h=66633fa ]

Merge pull request #127 from apache/COUCHDB-3100

Update documentation for require_valid_user

Commit a9dd4c4cc86634e4bd9c0ec7d947c12e467d1c7f in couchdb's branch refs/heads/COUCHDB-3376-fix-mem3-shards from Joan Touzet
[ https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb.git;h=a9dd4c4 ]

Merge pull request #478 from apache/COUCHDB-3100

Clarify & correct require_valid_user setting