Unable to connect with mongodb standard URI or connect using db other than 'admin'

[rudolf]

Tayra seems to always want to authenticate using 'admin' which makes it impossible to authenticate using db level users stored in .system.users .

It's also not possible to use the mongodb standard URI to connect to a db.

[DhavalDalal]

I think prima-facie it sounds like MongoDB thing as Tayra simply forwards the creds to MongoDB, but I'll ask the team to take a look into this. We will get back to you.

Also, it would be nice, if you could give us the steps to reproduce. Thanks!

[viveksd87]

Hi,
I think currently Tayra authenticates credentials only for "admin" database.
What we need to do is accept the "database" as well to authenticate against.

[rudolf]

I managed to hard code it for my own use, but I haven't done enough groovy to attempt a pull request for a generic solution.

It might be helpful to look at the documentation for mongooplog: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/program/mongooplog/

"By default, mongooplog assumes that the database specified to the --db argument holds the user’s credentials, unless you specify --authenticationDatabase."

[sameersoni]

Hi Rudolf,
I went through the issue, and --authenticationDatabase is introduced from 2.4 onwards. We are planning to introduce --authDb as a command line argument, which will take in the value for DB where credentials are stored.
For backward compatibility, ie for version below 2.4, we will keep --authDb parameter, and if user provides say '--authDB "someDB"', then too credentials will be looked for in 'admin' database.
For version >= 2.4, user will be authenticated using the authDb he specified.
Does this sounds good?