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Luzan Baral
Luzan Baral

Reputation: 3698

MongoDB Authentication not enabled on Linux Server

I have installed mongodb on Linux Server - Ubuntu 16.04. It is up and running, as I have tested it through putty. So, next thing I wanted to do was setup authentication on mongodb.

I have created users with roles following this blog.

This is my etc/mongodb.conf

# network interfaces
net:
  port: 27017
  bindIp: 127.0.0.1
security:
  authorization: enabled

I have setup user in db in system.users collection for two dbs with roles and restarted mongod on server.

Here, is the script test.sh to test the authentication status of mongodb. Ref was taken from here.

#!/bin/bash

# Connect to MongoDB address (host:port/dbname) specified as first parameter
# If no address specified, `mongo` default will be localhost:27017/test
isAuth=`mongo --eval "db.getUsers()" $1 | grep "not auth"`

if [ -z "$isAuth" ] ;
then
   echo "mongod auth is NOT enabled"
   exit 1
else
   echo "mongod auth is ENABLED"
   exit 0
fi

When I run the script I got mongod auth is NOT enabled. Moreover, I am also not having problem inserting or viewing database form shell.

So, my questions in summary are:

  1. Is what I have done for authentication on /etc/mongodb.conf correct? If not what might be the right way?
  2. How can I test if authentication is enabled on MongoDb?

P.S: I created Linux Server from Azure if that helps.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1791

Answers (1)

Luzan Baral
Luzan Baral

Reputation: 3698

Sorry to say but it was a typo I was doing systemctl start mongodb, it was actually mongod.

systemctl start mongod

made it up and running. I hope the resources I used for enabling authorization on Mongodb and Bash Script to check if authorization is working, will be a good resources for developers starting to develop using MongoDB.

Upvotes: 1

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