Giving the right priviliges to mongodb user?

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'm having some real trouble changing some user rights. Currently, we are trying to do an eval() function in a controlled way (basically through PHP's execute function: http://www.php.net/manual/en/mongodb.execute.php). I've enabled authentication and added some users:

admin = db.getSiblingDB('admin');
admin.addUser("superadmin", "somepass");
admin.auth("superadmin", "somepass");

bigdata = db.getSiblingDB('bigdata');
bigdata.addUser("datauser", "anotherpass");

How can I give the datauser the right permissions here?

Thank you.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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Since eval requires to be run by an admin user (yet another reason you shouldn't us JS in your client application) You assign those rights to the user ( http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/user-privileges/#eval-shell-helper ), so the set you need are:

readWriteAnyDatabase, userAdminAnyDatabase, dbAdminAnyDatabase and clusterAdmin

So what your looking for is how to change the user rights to have these added roles for which you can see this related SO question: How do you change MongoDB user permissions?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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answered Feb 28 '14 at 09:43

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So basically, I can't change the exisiting user, but have to create a new? – Repox Feb 28 '14 at 09:45
@Repox sorry was in a hurry, try that answer – Sammaye Feb 28 '14 at 09:57

Giving the right priviliges to mongodb user?

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