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Mongo DB privileges to insert data in a specific database?

I'm fighting to get my MongoDB container to work with authentication.

I created a database, and a user on that database with the dbAdmin role. But it seems this role is not enough to be able to insert data to the database, because when I run a script which populates my DB, I get this kind of error message:

error: not authorized on mydb to execute command { insert: "attachs", documents: 59, writeConcern: { getLastError: 1, w: 1 }, ordered: false }

So I guess I need to add some other privileges for my user, but I can't figure out which are missing.

Solution 
  • db.createUser({
          user : "root",
          pwd : "root",
          roles : ["readWrite", "dbAdmin"]

});

    You can create a role with readWrite. It will work.