scram-sha-1.md

SCRAM-SHA-1

SCRAM-SHA-1 is a default authentication method in MongoDB.

Enabling SCRAM-SHA-1

1. Let create a new user for authentication purpose:

mongo
use admin
db.createuser({user: 'kirby', pwd: 'password', roles: ['root']})
exit

2. Kill any mongod processes if necessary.
3. Create a new mongod configuration file with authorization enabled:

...
security
	authorization: 'enabled'
...

4. Start new mongod processes with authorization enabled:

mongod --config <CONFIG_FILE>

5. To be authorized while connecting through mongo, we should stored authorization data:

mongo -u <USERNAME> -p <PASSWORD> --authenticationDatabase <DATABASE_NAME>