can't access my couch db ('unauthorized') anymore

[Vincenzo Lorenzale]

I created and loaded my  couchdb.cloudno.de/travel DB a few days ago happily. Now all of a sudden I can't access it via futon as I get "Error: unauthorized
You are not authorized to access this db" upon https://couchdb.cloudno.de/_utils/database.html?travel.

Accessing my account and dashboard data at cloudno.de everything seems OK.

What can be done to overcome this issue?
Thanks, regards Vincenzo

[Hans Schroeder]

Hi Vincenzo,

Your db requires a login. When you use the futon link or button from the dashboard, you are automatically logged in. When you go directly to the URL you have mentioned, you need to login yourself:

1. Click the login link in the lower right pane of futon
2. Enter you Cloudnode user name as login user
3. Enter you CouchDB token (from Account -> Tokens) as password

Then you are logged in and authorized to access you database.

When you access the database programmatically, you also need to provide the user name and password. Libraries like cradle offer a function for this.

- Hans

[Vincenzo Lorenzale]

Hi Hans,

thanks for your reply, actually I could access the DB i I login via the right panel of futon, when I tried to access it via dashboard it did not work. In other words I can access the DB form dashboard only if a previous session via UID/PSW in futon was not closed. OK I can accept this but what still puzzles me is that I can't delete the DB I need to recreate: the delete link in futon is greyd out. I don't know the reason why..