MongoDB - admin user not authorized

Solution 1:

I was also scratching my head around the same issue, and everything worked after I set the role to be root when adding the first admin user.

use admin
db.createUser(
  {
    user: 'admin',
    pwd: 'password',
    roles: [ { role: 'root', db: 'admin' } ]
  }
);
exit;

If you have already created the admin user, you can change the role like this:

use admin;
db.grantRolesToUser('admin', [{ role: 'root', db: 'admin' }])

For a complete authentication setting reference, see the steps I've compiled after hours of research over the internet.

Solution 2:

It's a bit confusing - I believe you will need to grant yourself readWrite to query a database. A user with dbadmin or useradmin can admin the database (including granting yourself additional rights) but cannot perform queries or write data.

so grant yourself readWrite and you should be fine -

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/built-in-roles/#readWrite

Solution 3:

Perhaps a quick example of how to change a current user will be helpful to somebody. This is what I was actually looking for.

Following advice of @JohnPetrone I added readWrite role to my admin user with grantRolesToUser

> use admin
> db.grantRolesToUser("admin",["readWrite"])
> show collections
system.users
system.version