Mongo Atlas: Connection authentication failed with custom databases

Question

I am trying the Mongo Atlas Cloud. I create a cluster and i am trying a connection with the mongo shell: (same problem with mongo drivers)

mongo mongodb://***-cl         


        

Answer 1

Adding to Nath's answer, use "--authenticationDatabase admin" if your connecting via the mongo shell and use "authSource=admin" for drivers.

Tested with [MongoDB shell version: 3.2.8]