Create and manage users of MongoDB Flex

Prerequisites

• You have created a MongoDB Flex instance.
  Check Create and manage instances for MongoDB Flex.

List, create, view and delete a user

List users

STACKIT CLI

To get a list of all users for a MongoDB Flex instance:

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Flag	Description
instance-id	Instance ID of the instance you want to query

stackit mongodbflex user list --instance-id <instance-id>

You get the following output:

ID                                   │ USERNAME
─────────────────────────────────────┼──────────
703e5cce-463c-43f9-975c-36be5a8e2511 │ n44pk1sj
107d5d48-1540-4509-bc07-2a0ad0945c5b │ zvwn577e

STACKIT Portal

1. Open your project in the STACKIT Portal.
2. Navigate to Databases > MongoDB Flex.
3. Choose your instance and go to the overview.
4. On the sidebar, select Users.

Now you can see the list of users.

Create a user

STACKIT CLI

To create a user for a MongoDB Flex instance:

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Flag	Description	Default	Optional
instance-id	Instance ID of the instance you want to query
database	Database name for which the permissions should be set
role	Role of the user (read, readAnyDatabase, readWrite, readWriteAnyDatabase, stackitAdmin)	read	x
username	Username of the new user		x

stackit mongodbflex user create --instance-id <instance-id> --database <database>

You get the following output:

Created user for instance "mongodb-87ffl67rc1dd". User ID: a2a0e3d9-2281-4368-9337-a6903b613592

Username: zvwn577e
Password: S7ihJf9cbFdfzd7m
Roles: [read]
Database: books
Host: s-9092270d-c65a-45db-82bb-f259f3941f22-0.mongodb.eu01.onstackit.cloud
Port: 27017
URI: mongodb://zvwn577e:S7ihJf9cbFdfzd7m@s-9092270d-c65a-45db-82bb-f259f3941f22-0.mongodb.eu01.onstackit.cloud:27017/books?authSource=books&tls=true&authMechanism=SCRAM-SHA-256

You can not retrieve the password nor the connection string afterwards. You need to copy it right now to a safe location.

STACKIT Portal

1. Navigate to Databases > MongoDB Flex.
2. Choose your instance and go to the overview.
3. On the sidebar, select Users.
4. On the top, click on Create user.
5. Set a username or leave it blank to assign a random username.
6. Roles: Either Read or Read and write, you can not change it afterwards.
7. Database name: If you enter an existing database, then the new user will get permissions on it. Otherwise the system creates this database for you automatically when creating the user. The database name must begin with a letter and can contain lowercase letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens. Cannot end with a hyphen.
8. Click on Create.
9. Copy all information to a safe place. You can’t retrieve this information again.

View a user

STACKIT CLI

To get details of a user for a MongoDB Flex instance:

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Flag	Description	Default	Optional
instance-id	Instance ID of the instance you want to query
user-id	The ID of the user (not its username)

stackit mongodbflex user describe <user-id> --instance-id <instance-id>

You get the following output:

 ID       │ a2a0e3d9-2281-4368-9337-a6903b613592
──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 USERNAME │ z8n9ybsi
──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 ROLES    │ [read]
──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 DATABASE │ books
──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 HOST     │ s-9092270d-c65a-45db-82bb-f259f3941f22-0.mongodb.eu01.onstackit.cloud
──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 PORT     │ 27017

Enter the User ID of the user not its username.

STACKIT Portal

1. Open your project in the STACKIT Portal.
2. Navigate to Databases > MongoDB Flex.
3. Choose your instance and go to the overview.
4. On the sidebar, select Users.
5. Click on the user entry you want to view.

Delete a user

STACKIT CLI

To delete a user for a MongoDB Flex instance:

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Flag	Description	Default	Optional
instance-id	Instance ID of the instance you want to query
user-id	The ID of the user (not its username)

stackit mongodbflex user delete <user-id> --instance-id <instance-id>

After confirmation you get the following output:

Deleted user "z8n9ybsi" of instance "mongodb-87ffl67rc1dd"

Enter the user ID of the user, not the username.

STACKIT Portal

1. Navigate to Databases > MongoDB Flex.
2. Choose your instance and go to the overview.
3. On the sidebar, select Users.
4. Click on the three dots on the right side of a user entry.
5. Click on Delete.