Creating a MongoDB User

[do...@slice.com]

I am trying to automate the creation of a user in MongoDB.

The admin user was previously created.

I've tried this:

echo "use dbc" | mongo admin --verbose -u admin -p "password" create_app_user.js

where the create_app_user.js file contains:

db.createUser(

    {

      user: "dbc",

      pwd: "password",

      roles: [

         { role: "readWrite", db: "dbc" }

      ]

    }

)

However, that seems to create a dbc user in the admin database (not the dbc database), like this:

show users

...

{

"_id" : "admin.dbc",

"user" : "dbc",

"db" : "admin",

"roles" : [

{

"role" : "readWrite",

"db" : "dbc"

}

]

}

On the creation command, if I switch 'mongo admin' to 'mongo dbc' to instead connect to the dbc database, authentication fails... probably because the user doesn't exist yet.

How do I do this?

Doug.

[Will Berkeley]

The authentication failing means the admin user can't authenticate to the dbc database. What roles does the admin user have?

-Will