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bor
bor

Reputation: 2351

MongoDb: How to drop a database using shell using authentication?

I have a authenticated user with all required privileges to drop a database. I want to drop the database from the shell and tried following command 

mongo -uuser -ppass newdb --eval "db.dropDatabase();"

I got following:-

MongoDB shell version: 2.4.9
connecting to: newdb
[object Object]

That's it I got no errors and no results. The database still exists with all values.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4341

Answers (2)

Roberto
Roberto

Reputation: 9080

Your command should work

mongo -uuser -ppass newdb --eval "db.dropDatabase();"

If you access to mongo after that with

mongo -uuser -ppass newdb

The database is created again but empty, so when you said:

The database still exists with all values.

Are you sure that has all collections inside ?

To check if has been deleted you can do:

mongo -uuser -ppass
> show dbs

The "newdb" shouldn't appear.

I've tested it with Mongo 2.4.2.

Upvotes: 2

ZZY
ZZY

Reputation: 3937

You may try this:

mongo -u USER -p PASS --eval "db=db.getSiblingDB('DB_NAME');db.dropDatabase();"

Reference: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/write-scripts-for-the-mongo-shell/

Upvotes: 1

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