title: CouchDB: How to set/get user's password hash?
body: <p>I want to synchronize the passwords from a MySQL database user table with the CouchDB _users database. From what I can see, on CouchDB it is not possible to look up a user's password hash through the HTTP API. How would you go about manually retrieving and modifying the CouchDB user password hashes?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3684749/how-to-create-users-in-couchdb-not-admin">This question</a> seems to cover SETTING the password, but not GETTING.</p>