Configure Authentication, Users and Roles in MongoDB

In this lesson, I show you how you can create authentication, users, roles in the MongoDB database.

Go to the database(here admin) and add a user:

use admin
db.createUser(
  {
    user: "myUserAdmin",
    pwd: passwordPrompt(), // or cleartext password
    roles: [ { role: "userAdminAnyDatabase", db: "admin" }, "readWriteAnyDatabase" ]
  }
)

Shutdown MongoDB and start new mongod with --auth:

db.adminCommand( { shutdown: 1 } )

mongod --auth --port 27017 --dbpath /var/lib/mongodb

Change Configurartion file if you start mongod by config:

security:
    authorization: enabled

Run mongo shell with database and authentication:

mongo --port 27017  --authenticationDatabase "admin" -u "myUserAdmin" -p