Mongodb Atlas: not authorized on admin to execute command

Question

I have a MongoDB Atlas cluster within which I am trying to simply copy a database within the same instance. Unfortunately, every time I try to run db.copyDatabase() or copydb ad

Answer 1

This drove me insane... Turns out the standard link provided by MongoDB was trying to name my default database "admin". Change the link from

mongodb+srv://username:password@portfoliosite-ezeot.mongodb.net/**admin**?retryWrites=true&w=majority 

to

mongodb+srv://username:password@portfoliosite-ezeot.mongodb.net/**test**?retryWrites=true&w=majority

You can put any word in for test just not admin. Hope this helps!