This feature is documented here:
http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/security.html#hashing

Puppet runs, sets the password in local.ini and starts/restarts couchdb. couchdb reads the password, hashes it, and re-writes the config. Then later puppet runs, sees the password has changed, re-writes it, and restarts couchdb. And now we repeat the process forever.

I'm using couchdb 1.0.4

Hey there!

Awesome module :) What's the license? MIT, GPLv3, BSD, Apache, etc?

Keep up the great work!

when installing couchdb 1.5.1 - the default local.ini put in by this puppet module, breaks couchdb - which unfortunately does not report it as a config error - it just fails majorly :(

also - this module does NOT set uuid = .. I was thinking one could use the base64 stdlib function on $fqdn to generate a unique uuid.

The important diff seems to be:
uri_file = /var/lib/couchdb/couch.uri | uri_file = /var/run/couchdb/couch.uri
util_driver_dir = /usr/lib64/erlang/lib/couch-1.0.4/priv/lib | util_driver_dir = /usr/lib64/erlang/lib/couch-1.5.1/priv/lib

I use the following:

class { 'couchdb':
log_file => '/nas/log/mas/couchdb',
bind_address => '0.0.0.0',
}

And the /etc/coucdb/local.ini does not get updated with the above values.

BR Thomas