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@@ -129,14 +129,16 @@ You can use whatever tool your system provides to create a new `couchdb` user. On many UNIX-like systems you can run the following command: - adduser couchdb + adduser --system --home /var/lib/couchdb --no-create-home \ + --shell /bin/bash --group --gecos "CouchDB Administrator" couchdb OS X provides the standard Accounts option from the System Preferences application or you can optionally use the Workgroup Manager application which can be downloaded as part of the [Server Admin Tools][14]. -You should set the home directory of the `couchdb` user to -`/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb` which is the Apache CouchDB database directory. +You should make sure that the `couchdb` user has a working POSIX shell and set +the home directory to `/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb` which is the Apache CouchDB +database directory. Make sure to change the ownership of the Apache CouchDB data directories by running the following commands: |