Enterprise Authentication Mechanisms
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In addition to the authentication mechanisms offered in MongoDB Community, MongoDB Enterprise provides integration with the following external authentication mechanisms.
Kerberos Authentication
MongoDB Enterprise supports authentication using a Kerberos service. Kerberos is an industry standard authentication protocol for large client/server systems.
To use MongoDB with Kerberos, you must have a properly configured Kerberos deployment, configured Kerberos service principals for MongoDB, and added Kerberos user principal to MongoDB.
For more information on Kerberos and MongoDB, see:
LDAP Proxy Authentication
MongoDB Enterprise supports proxy authentication through a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) service.
Changed in version 3.4: MongoDB 3.4 supports using operating system libraries instead of the
saslauthd
daemon, allowing MongoDB 3.4 servers running on Linux and Microsoft Windows
to connect to LDAP servers. Linux MongoDB deployments continue to support
saslauthd.
Previous versions of MongoDB support authentication against an LDAP server
using simple and SASL binding via saslauthd. This restricted LDAP
authentication support to only Linux MongoDB deployments.
See LDAP Proxy Authentication for more information.
LDAP Authorization
New in version 3.4.
MongoDB Enterprise supports querying an LDAP server for the LDAP groups the
authenticated user is a member of. MongoDB maps the Distinguished Names (DN)
of each returned group to roles on the admin database.
MongoDB authorizes the user based on the mapped roles and their associated
privileges. See LDAP Authorization for more
information.