User management/permissions API

[rcoulsell]

When creating a new database and defining users using the database.createDatabase users: Array, it creates a new user with administative rights to the subject database.

This is causing difficulty in automatically setting up default system users for app integration/installation in Node.js.

Is there a way to pass in a parameter to set the access for the user to the created database as 'Access' instead of 'Adminstrate', etc.?

[rcoulsell]

I know this can be achieved using an external curl call outside of arangojs after the fact:
curl -X PUT -u "<admin user>:<admin user password>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "accept: application/json" -d '{"grant" : "ro"}' http://localhost:8529/_api/user/{userModified}/database/{databaseModified}

Seems like this is missing from arangojs natively.

[pluma]

No, this option is intended to create per-database admin accounts as an alternative to the default root user. This option pre-dates the modern permission system, so this may be an oversight in the API: https://www.arangodb.com/docs/stable/http/database-database-management.html#create-database

You're right that there is currently no way to manage users from arangojs. You can however access arbitrary endpoints of the HTTP API using the .route() method, which provides a generic request API.

[pluma]

I think this may be a duplicate of #593

[pluma]

The HTTP API is documented at https://www.arangodb.com/docs/stable/http/user-management.html