Authenticate a User
To authenticate as a user, you must provide a username, password, and the authentication database associated with that user.
Important
Using mongosh
, you can:
Start mongosh
with the -u
<username>
, -p
, and the
--authenticationDatabase <database>
command line options:
mongosh --port 27017 --authenticationDatabase \ "admin" -u "myUserAdmin" -p
Enter your password when prompted.
Using mongosh
, connect to the
mongod
or mongos
instance:
mongosh --port 27017
In mongosh
, switch to the
authentication database (in this case, admin
), and
use the db.auth(<username>, <pwd>)
method or the authenticate
command to authenticate against the authentication
database:
use admin db.auth("myUserAdmin", passwordPrompt()) // or cleartext password
Tip
The passwordPrompt()
method prompts you to enter the
password. You can also specify your password directly as a string. We
recommend to use the passwordPrompt()
method to avoid the
password being visible on your screen and potentially leaking the
password to your shell history.
Enter the password when prompted.
For examples using a MongoDB driver, see the driver documentation.