Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development

Creating a User Administrator Account

The first step in configuring access control is to implement a user administrator. The user administrator should only have rights to create users and not to manage the databases or other administration functions. This keeps a clean separation between database administration and user account administration.

You create a user administrator by executing the following two commands in the MongoDB shell to access the admin database and then add a user with userAdminAnyDatabase rights:

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use admindb.addUser( { user: "<username>",    pwd: "<password>",    roles: [ "userAdminAnyDatabase" ] } )

The user administrator account should be created with userAdminAnyDatabase as the only role. This ...