CouchDBUser.create() fails if require_valid_user = true

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Currently to create a new user using the CouchDBUser module, it simply puts a new document in the _users database using a standard sync request (this.load()).

It won't work if CouchDB is configured to expect a valid user and there is no configuration option to pass admin parameters (or any valid user) to CouchDBUser.

My workaround to make it work is to manually rewrite the create method of CouchDBUser and pass it the admin credentials:

this.create = function create() {
var promise = new Promise,
user = this;

        if (!this.get("type")) {
            this.set("type", "user");
        }

        if (!this.get("roles")) {
            this.set("roles", []);
        }

        this.getTransport().request("CouchDB", {
                            method: "PUT",
                            path: "/_users/org.couchdb.user:"+ user.get("name"),
                            auth: cdbAdminCredentials,
                            headers: {
                                    "Content-Type": "application/json",
                                    "Connection": "close"
                            },
                            data: user.toJSON()
                            }, function (result) {
                                    var json = JSON.parse(result);
                                    if (json.ok) {
                                            promise.fulfill();
                                    }
                                    else {
                                            promise.reject(json);
                                    }
                            });
                    return promise;
    };