Answer: MongoDB - admin user not authorized

answer re: MongoDB - admin user not authorized

Apr 6 '15

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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;

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