User and Role Management Tutorials¶

The following tutorials provide instructions on how to enable authentication and limit access for users with privilege roles.

Create a User Administrator: Create users with special permissions to to create, modify, and remove other users, as well as administer authentication credentials (e.g. passwords).
Add a User to a Database: Create non-administrator users using MongoDB’s role-based authentication system.
Create an Administrative User with Unrestricted Access: Create a user with unrestricted access. Create such a user only in unique situations. In general, all users in the system should have no more access than needed to perform their required operations.
Create a Role: Create custom role.
Assign a User a Role: Assign a user a role. A role grants the user a defined set of privileges. A user can have multiple roles.
Verify User Privileges: View a user’s current privileges.
Modify a User’s Access: Modify the actions available to a user on specific database resources.
View Roles: View a role’s privileges.
Change a User’s Password: Only user administrators can edit credentials. This tutorial describes the process for editing an existing user’s password.
Change Your Password and Custom Data: Users with sufficient access can change their own passwords and modify the optional custom data associated with their user credential.