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atlas dbusers describe

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Return the details for the specified database user for your project.

To use this command, you must authenticate with a user account or an API key with the Project Read Only role.

Command Syntax
atlas dbusers describe <username> [options]
Name
Type
Required
Description
username
string
true
Username to retrieve from the MongoDB database. The format of the username depends on the user's method of authentication.
Name
Type
Required
Description
--authDB
string
false
Authentication database name. If the user authenticates with AWS IAM, x.509, or LDAP, this value should be $external. If the user authenticates with SCRAM-SHA, this value should be admin. This value defaults to "admin".
-h, --help
false
help for describe
-o, --output
string
false
Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. To see the full output, use the -o json option.
--projectId
string
false
Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable.
Name
Type
Required
Description
-P, --profile
string
false
Name of the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for the Atlas CLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings.

If the command succeeds, the CLI returns output similar to the following sample. Values in brackets represent your values.

USERNAME DATABASE
<Username> <DatabaseName>
# Return the details for the SCRAM SHA-authenticating database user named myDbUser:
atlas dbuser describe myDbUser --authDB admin --output json
# Return the details for the AWS IAM-authenticating database user with the ARN arn:aws:iam::772401394250:user/my-test-user. Prepend $external with \ to escape the special-use character:
atlas dbuser describe arn:aws:iam::772401394250:user/my-test-user --authDB \$external --output json
# Return the details for the X.509-authenticating database user with the RFC 2253 Distinguished Name CN=ellen@example.com,OU=users,DC=example,DC=com. Prepend $external with \ to escape the special-use character:
atlas dbuser describe CN=ellen@example.com,OU=users,DC=example,DC=com --authDB \$external --output json

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