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Access Control Tutorials¶
The following tutorials provide instructions on how to enable authentication and limit access for users with privilege roles.
- Enable Authentication
- Describes the process for enabling authentication for MongoDB deployments.
- Create a User Administrator
- Create users with special permissions to to create, modify, and remove other users, as well as administer authentication credentials (e.g. passwords).
- Add a User to a Database
- Create non-administrator users using MongoDB’s role-based authentication system.
- Change a User’s Password
- Only user administrators can edit credentials. This tutorial describes the process for editing an existing user’s password.
- Generate a Key File
- Use key file to allow the components of MongoDB sharded cluster or replica set to mutually authenticate.
- Deploy MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication
- Describes the process, for MongoDB Enterprise, used to enable and implement a Kerberos-based authentication system for MongoDB deployments.