How to Add Database and User Administrators

• How do you add an overall admin user?

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  • Edit mongod.conf and set auth=true
  • Restart mongod
  • Access mongodb using the mongo shell
  • use admin
  • db.addUser("admin","password")

• How do you add a user administrator?

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  • For one database:
  • use db-name
  • db.addUser({user:"xxx",pwd:"xxx",roles:["userAdmin"]})
  • For any database:
  • use admin
  • db.addUser({user:"xxx",pwd:"xxx",roles:["userAdminAnyDatabase"]})

• How do you add a database administrator?

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  • For one database:
  • use db-name
  • db.addUser({user:"xxx",pwd:"xxx",roles:["dbAdmin"]})
  • For any database:
  • use admin
  • db.addUser({user:"xxx",pwd:"xxx",roles:["dbAdminAnyDatabase"]})

• How do you perform actions on other databases?

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  • use admin
  • db.addUser({user:"xxx",pwd:"xxx",roles:[],otherDBRoles:
    {db-user:["role"],next-db-user:["role","role"],etc.})