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Configure MongoDB Authentication and Authorization¶
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Your MongoDB deployments can use the access control mechanisms described on this page. You specify the authentication settings when adding the deployment. You can edit the security settings after adding a deployment.
If a deployment uses access control, Monitoring and Backup must authenticate to the deployment as MongoDB users with appropriate access. If you are using the MongoDB Agent with Automation enabled to manage your MongoDB deployments, you enable and configure authentication through the Cloud Manager.
If you are not using the MongoDB Agent with Automation enabled to manage your MongoDB deployments, you must activate and configure Monitoring and Backups.
Considerations¶
With access control enabled, you must create MongoDB users so that clients can access your databases.
If you are using the MongoDB Agent with Automation enabled to manage your MongoDB deployments, Cloud Manager automatically creates users for the agents when you enable access control. The user created for the MongoDB Agent has privileges to administrate and manage other users. As such, the first user you create can have any role.
When you select an Authentication Mechanism for your Cloud Manager group, this enables access control for all the deployments in your Cloud Manager group.
Recommendation
To avoid inconsistencies, use the Cloud Manager interface to manage users and roles for MongoDB deployments.
See also
To learn more about MongoDB access control, see the Authentication and Authorization pages in the MongoDB manual.
Access Control Mechanisms¶
SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-256¶
MongoDB supports the following implementations of challenge-response mechanisms for authenticating users with passwords.
In the following table, the default authentication mechanism for the release series is marked with check square icon and acceptable authentication mechanisms are marked with check circle icon .
| MongoDB Release Series | MONGODB-CR | SCRAM-SHA-1 | SCRAM-SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0.x | check circle icon | check square icon | |
| 3.6.x | check circle icon | check square icon | |
| 3.4.x | check circle icon | check square icon | |
| 3.2.x | check circle icon | check square icon | |
| 3.0.x | check circle icon | check square icon | |
| Pre-3.0 | check square icon |
To enable SCRAM-SHA-1 or SCRAM-SHA-256 when using:
LDAP¶
MongoDB Enterprise supports proxy authentication of users. This allows administrators to configure a MongoDB cluster to authenticate users by proxying authentication requests to a specified LDAP service.
To enable LDAP for your Cloud Manager project:
Kerberos¶
MongoDB Enterprise supports authentication using a Kerberos service. Kerberos is an IETF (RFC 4120) standard authentication protocol for large client/server systems.
To use MongoDB with Kerberos, you must have a properly configured Kerberos deployment, configure Kerberos service principals for MongoDB, and add the Kerberos user principal.
To enable Kerberos for your Cloud Manager project:
- Enable Kerberos Authentication for your Cloud Manager Project
- Configure the MongoDB Agent for Kerberos.
Specify Kerberos as the MongoDB process’s authentication mechanism when adding or editing the deployment.
X.509¶
MongoDB supports X.509 certificate authentication for use with a secure TLS connection. The X.509 client authentication allows clients to authenticate to servers with certificates rather than with a username and password.
To enable X.509 authentication for your Cloud Manager project:
- Enable x.509 Authentication for your Cloud Manager Project.
- Configure the MongoDB Agent for X.509 Authentication.
You can also use X.509 certificates for membership authentication for the processes that Cloud Manager monitors.
Edit Host Credentials¶
You can configure the deployment to use the authentication mechanism from the Cloud Manager interface. The Manage MongoDB Users and Roles tutorials describe how to configure an existing deployment to use each authentication mechanism.