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How do I change user in MongoDB?
To change another user’s pwd or customData field, you must have the changePassword and changeCustomData actions respectively on that user’s database. To modify your own password and custom data, you must have privileges that grant changeOwnPassword and changeOwnCustomData actions respectively on the user’s database.
What is the default user in MongoDB?
4 Answers. By default mongodb has no enabled access control, so there is no default user or password. To enable access control, use either the command line option –auth or security.
Where is my MongoDB stored?
/data/db directory
By default, MongoDB listens for connections from clients on port 27017, and stores data in the /data/db directory.
How to change the owner of MongoDB data?
Someone suggests to change the owner of mongodb data and log files to mongodb:mongodb. But I have no idea how to run mongod as mongod? Any idea?
What’s the default dbpath for MongoDB on Linux?
If you installed MongoDB on Linux using a package manager, such as yum or apt, the /etc/mongod.conf file provided with your MongoDB installation sets the following default dbPath , depending on your Linux distro: The user account that mongod runs under will need read and write access to this directory.
How do I enable access control in MongoDB?
To enable access control, use either the command line option –auth or security.authorization configuration file setting. You can use the following procedure or refer to Enabling Auth in the MongoDB docs. Start MongoDB without access control. Connect to the instance. Create the user administrator. Re-start the MongoDB instance with access control.
How to create a root role in MongoDB?
Create the user administrator. Re-start the MongoDB instance with access control. Authenticate as the user administrator. In addition with what @Camilo Silva already mentioned, if you want to give free access to create databases, read, write databases, etc, but you don’t want to create a root role, you can change the 3rd step with the following: