MongoDB Setup
Ubuntu setup
Install MongoDB Community Edition on Ubuntu
Configure Auth
Create users
// create super admin user with name 'admin'
use admin
db.createUser({
user: "admin",
pwd: "123456",
roles: [ { role: "userAdminAnyDatabase", db: "admin" } ]
}
)
// create user 'alex' as owner of database 'Staging-Payments'
db.createUser({
user: "alex",
pwd: "030201",
roles: [ { role: "dbOwner", db: "Staging-Payments" } ]
}
)
// create user 'myTester' and grant different roles for different databases
db.createUser(
{
user: "myTester",
pwd: "xyz123",
roles: [ { role: "readWrite", db: "test" },
{ role: "read", db: "reporting" } ]
}
)
// grant roles for existing user
db.grantRolesToUser(
"admin",
[ { role: "dbOwner", db: "Dev-Test" },
{ role: "dbOwner", db: "Staging-Test" } ]
)
Connect and authenticate
To authenticate during connection
mongo --port 27017 -u "myUserAdmin" -p "abc123" --authenticationDatabase "admin"
To authenticate after connecting
use admin
db.auth("myUserAdmin", "abc123")