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Jochen Shi
Jochen Shi

Reputation: 573

Can i use a single user to connect different databases in MongoDB?

I hava tried to create a user in database "admin" with roles of "root","readWriteManyDatabase" in mongodb to connect to different databases, but it seems that i can not use this user to directly connect to the other databases, but i can do operations on other databases after run db.auth() in database admin. So, is there any way i can use to connect directly to different databases with a same user but do not need to first connect to database "admin"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2623

Answers (1)

Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith

Reputation: 14456

Make sure you're authentication with the admin database when connecting to the database server, this can be specified on the MongoDB Connection string by passing a query string parameter of authSource. For example:

mongodb://username:password@my-server/my-db?&authSource=admin

If you don't specify an auth source then it will try to authenticate using the database specified, in this case my-db

If you're using the shell you can specify this as an arugment of authenticationDatabase for example:

mongo localhost -u user -p password --authenticationDatabase admin

Upvotes: 3

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