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Using different mongo database than admin in sails

I'm struggling to connect with sails to a mongodb database that uses a database for authentication named "dbadmin". Where I am DBA decided to have all users centralized in a users database.

I can connect to this "dbadmin" database but then sails complains it cannot create collections there.

How can I use an authentication database and then a different database for collections?

Solution

  • It turns out that using the URL for the connection has more possibilities. So all I had to do is append at the end authSource=dbadmin

    module.exports = {

    models: {
        connection: 'mongoRM'
    },

    connections: {
        mongoRM: {
            adapter: 'sails-mongo',
            url: 'mongodb://user:password@db_url:port/database?authSource=dbadmin'
        }
    }
}