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

In case you have been using mongoose, I solved a similar error updating mongoose to latest version (based on this post).

Answer 2

this error is because you are trying create the colecction above admin, in atlas this isn't possible because securty.

in this case you need to use the word key use [collection_name]

this is the link for this answer.

it is in spanish.

https://victorroblesweb.es/2016/12/24/crear-una-base-datos-mongodb/

Answer 3

I had faced a similar obstacle and spent hours, the problem was with the connection string provided by mongodb atlas which is: mongodb+srv://username:password@clusterName-jynkd.mongodb.net/test?retryWrites=true

I used a different connection string and worked perfectly. This is it: mongodb://username:password@clusterName+port/yourdb?retryWrites=true&ssl=true&authSource=admin. Make sure the clustername + port are like this: clusterName-shard-00-00-jynkd.mongodb.net:27017