I'm starting with MongoDB and it looks like it needs a writable /data/db. So I created a folder /data/db as superuser but then when I start it requires the rights the write on that directory (makes sense).
My question is : should I do a chmod 777 on /data/db ? Or should I run mongod as sudo ?
According to : mongodb Mongod complains that there is no /data/db folder
I should do
grep mongo /etc/passwd
but that does not return anything
And sudo chown -R mongod:mongod /data/db gives me a chown: mongod: illegal group name
Thanks
EDIT:
I've chown -R totosh:staff /data/db (totosh being my username) and now it works. Is it the right thing to do though ?
