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How can I enter Mongo as a superuser or reset users?

How can I enter Mongo as a superuser or reset users?

  • I'm was playing around with permissions and locked myself out of Mongo database. I'm pretty sure I did this by trying to explicitly add access to a database but instead I overwrote only allowing permission to the database. So I'm effectively locked out of my Mongo database and everything I read tells me how to create a super user if I have the add user privilege. Right now I don't think I have any users that have that privilege. Is there a way to enter the database as all access? I own the server and have root access.

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    If you have locked yourself out then you need to do the following: Stop your MongoDB instance Remove the --auth and/or --keyfile options from your MongoDB config to disable authentication Start the instance without authentication Edit the users as needed Restart the instance with authentication enabled

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Check the answers to this question, they might help http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20117104/mongodb-root-user Basically if you still have access to the server, you may be able to access the Admin database. There's more in this page http://docs.mongodb.org/v2.4/reference/user-privileges/ Note that 2.6 version changes how this works completely. For 2.6 you'll need to spend more time with http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/security/

Meligy

You have to stop Mongo, remove the admin files, then start Mongo sudo service mongod stop mv /data/admin.* . sudo service mongod start

Tony

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