Trouble creating users IN A SCRIPT with a one liner. How do that?

[Christian_Seberino]

Inside of mongosh shell I can do this fine…

use admin
db.createUser({user: “admin”, pwd: “admin”, roles: [{role: “root”, db: “admin”}]})

Now I need to do it in a script with a one liner but it doesn’t seem to work. It doesn’t
give any errors. However, the user will NOT be created?

Here is what I’ve tried…

echo ‘use admin ; db.createUser({user: “admin”, pwd: “admin”, roles: [{role: “root”, db: “admin”}]}) ; exit;’ | mongosh

Also:

mongosh --eval ‘use admin ; db.createUser({user: “admin”, pwd: “admin”, roles: [{role: “root”, db: “admin”}]}) ; exit;’

Is there a better way to create user in a script with a one liner?

Thanks,

[chris (Chris Dellaway)]

Hi @Christian_Seberino

Try this form:

--eval "db.getSiblingDB('admin').createUser(...)"

[Christian_Seberino]

Thanks. I figured it out. Apparently my problem was trying to switch databases inside my mongosh code.

In other words, this doesn’t work:

mongosh --eval ‘use admin ; db.createUser({user: “admin”, pwd: “admin”, roles: [{role: “root”, db: “admin”}]}) ;’

However, if you remove the ‘use admin;’ and switch to admin another way, then it works…

mongosh admin --eval ‘db.createUser({user: “admin”, pwd: “admin”, roles: [{role: “root”, db: “admin”}]}) ;’