How to connect mongosh to database with password on command line?

Ops and Admin
#1

I am running on a Ubuntu Linux system (Focal); I have a mongo (version 5.0.3) database with authentication enabled. I cannot find a command line that will drop me into the mongo shell for the database I want. Could someone please lend me a clue?

If I issue the command mongosh -u mongoAdmin -p '<password>' mongodb://127.0.0.1/ I get into the mongo shell using the test database. To get to my database db-name, I need to issue the command use db-name .

If I issue the command mongosh -u mongoAdmin -p '<password>' mongodb://127.0.0.1/db-name I get an error message:

Current Mongosh Log ID: 617d0f78622b00d5095d474d
Connecting to:          mongodb://127.0.0.1/db-name?directConnection=true&serverSelectionTimeoutMS=2000
MongoServerError: Authentication failed.

Users I have configured in the admin database:

[
  {
    _id: 'admin.mongoAdmin',
    userId: UUID("6dbdd918-02c4-4000-b5e4-ff59db9f86ed"),
    user: 'mongoAdmin',
    db: 'admin',
    roles: [ { role: 'userAdminAnyDatabase', db: 'admin' } ],
    mechanisms: [ 'SCRAM-SHA-1', 'SCRAM-SHA-256' ]
  }
]
#2

Did you try with --authenticationDatabase?

#3

Thank you, that did it.

#4

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