Can't connect to MongoDB with authentication enabled

Question

I\'m running the latest MongoDB for Ubuntu 14.04

• I have created a user named \"admin\" with \"userAdminAnyDatabase\" role
• I can access databases local

Answer 1

I think that auth = true is an invalid configuration and your mongod is not starting because of it. To enable authorization, try using the following instead:

security:
  authorization: enabled

Then, to connect to the database, make sure that your client is using the correct authentication database and authentication mechanism. This can be done using the commmand line by the following command:

mongo localhost -u admin -p myAdminPass --authenticationDatabase admin --authenticationMechanism SCRAM-SHA-1