command line authentication of mongo fails

Question

I am running mongo 2.2.2 on osx.

When I do the following authentication is going fine:

$ mongo
>> use admin
>> db.auth(\"uname\", \"passw         


        

Answer 1

This is the way to access an authenticate MongoDB database from terminal

mongo -u user_name -p "your_password" host_name/database_name

Ex:

mongo -u hasib -p "123456" localhost/my_db

Answer 2

To Login to MongoDB Via Command Line do the following

$ mongo admin -u 'username' -p 'Password'

Answer 3

A password containing special characters, especially the dollar sign, has to be put in single quotes to protect them from the command shell:

$ mongo admin -u uname -p 'password'

Answer 4

You have to user the --authenticationDatabase to indicate mongodb where to find the user you have created. For example:

mongo admin -u uname -p 'password' --authenticationDatabase admin