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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Shortenit is a tool to shorten urls.
 To run `shortenit`, first we need to have a running database. Shortenit uses [CouchDB](https://couchdb.apache.org/) as a database. CouchDB can run as a docker container.
 
 ```text
-$ docker run -p 5984:5984 -d couchdb 
+$ docker run -p 5984:5984 -e COUCHDB_USER=root -e COUCHDB_PASSWORD=root -d couchdb 
 ```
 
 At this point, visit the local instance link [http://localhost:5984](http://localhost:5984/) and create the user credentials configured in [config/config.yaml](config/config.yaml).