Couchbase Sync Gateway & password protected bucket

Mobile Sync Gateway
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Hi,

I’d encounter access issue when I set a password protected bucket and try to access the Sync Gateway Admin REST API.

I connect in SSH to the server hosting the sync gateway and the execute a curl command to get the list of users but an HTTP 401 Unauthorized response is return. Here is what I did:

curl -X GET ‘localhost:4985/{DB}/_user/’

the response is:

{“error”:“Internal Server Error”,“reason”:“Internal error: error executing view req at http://OBFUSCATED_INTERNAL_URI:8092/{DB}/_design/sync_gateway/_view/principals?stale=false: 401 Unauthorized - {“error”:“unauthorized”,“reason”:“password required”}\n”}

As you can see, the underlying request receive the 401 Unauthorized response.

Everything work fine if I remove the password from the bucket, but it’s not what we want…

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I don’t think Sync Gateway supports connections to a password protected Couchbase Server bucket.
@adamf or @andy can correct me if that isn’t correct.

Both servers should be running on the same shared network preferably.

James

3

They both run on the same shared network. In fact I have a cluster of 3 couchbase servers + 3 sync gateway servers running on a shared network.

Is password protected bucket access with Sync Gateway planned in your roadmap?

4

If that is the case, in what way can we provide security to the buckets? If the buckets are left without a password, anyone who finds out the server IP can access the data on it.