Cannot authenticate into mongo, "auth fails"
mongodb
Solution
Authentication is managed at a database level. When you try to connect to the system using a database, mongo actually checks for the credentials you provide in the collection `<database>.system.users`. So, basically when you are trying to connect to "test", it looks for the credentials in `test.system.users` and returns an error because it cannot find them (as they are stored in `admin.system.users`). Having the right to read and write from all db doesn't mean you can directly connect to them.
You have to connect to the database holding the credentials first. Try:
mongo admin -u admin -p SECRETPASSWORD
For more info, check this http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/privilege-documents/
Problem
I've created an admin user for mongo using these directions: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/add-user-administrator/ From the mongo client it looks like I can authenticate: ``` > use admin switched to db admin > db.auth('admin','SECRETPASSWORD'); 1 > ``` But I can't connect any other way. For example: mongo -u admin -p SECRETPASSWORD gives the error: ``` JavaScript execution failed: Error: 18 { code: 18, ok: 0.0, errmsg: "auth fails" } at src/mongo/shell/db.js:L228 ``` I have `auth = true` in `etc/mongod.conf`. What am I missing?