enabling mongodb authentication

mongo-auth.md

Enabling Authentication on MongoDB

Securing

1. Execute following queries in Mongo Shell:

use admin;
db.createUser({
  user: 'some username for admin',
  pwd: 'a super secure password for administraton, e.g. 123',
  roles: [ { role: "userAdminAnyDatabase", db: "admin" } ]
});

2. Add (un-comment) following lines in /etc/mongod.conf:

security:
    authorization: "enabled"

3. Create users for databases in Mongo Shell

db.createUser({
  user: 'some username',
  pwd: 'some password for user',
  roles: [ { role: "readWrite", db: "test" } ]
});

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Logging In

To log into test database in Mongo Shell, run following commands after starting mongod:

use test;
db.auth('some username', 'some password');

returning 1 from mongod means youre successfully logged in.