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Create a new Admin user
For example, creating a system admin with "anna" as the username and "secret" as the password.
No Format > HOST="http://127.0.0.1:5984" > curl -X PUT $HOST/_config/admins/anna -d '"secret"' ""
System admin is allowed to do anything to a CouchDB installation.
Confirm that the new system admin has been created successfully
Without credentials
No Format > curl -X PUT $HOST/somedatabase {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}With credentials
No Format > HOST="http://anna:secret@127.0.0.1:5984" > curl -X PUT $HOST/somedatabase {"ok":true}