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passwordPrompt()

Prompts for the password in mongosh. The entered password is not displayed in the shell. Use passwordPrompt() in conjunction with methods that accept password as a parameter instead of specifying the password in cleartext to those methods.

The db.createUser() requires a password to be specified.

You can use passwordPrompt() as the value for the pwd instead of specifying the password.

db.createUser( {
user:"user123",
pwd: passwordPrompt(), // Instead of specifying the password in cleartext
roles:[ "readWrite" ]
} )

Enter the password when prompted.

When you run the db.auth(<username>, <password>) command you can replace the password with the passwordPrompt() method.

If you omit the password from the db.auth(<username>, <password>) command, the user is prompted to enter a password.

The following example prompts the user to enter a password which is not displayed in the shell:

db.auth("user123")

The db.changeUserPassword() requires a password to be specified.

You can use passwordPrompt() instead of specifying the password.

db.changeUserPassword("user123", passwordPrompt())

Enter the password when prompted.

When changing the password with db.updateUser(), the method requires a password to be specified.

You can use passwordPrompt() as the value for the pwd instead of specifying the password.

db.updateUser(
"user123",
{
pwd: passwordPrompt(),
mechanisms: [ "SCRAM-SHA-256" ]
}
)

Enter the password when prompted.

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