Trouble enabling authorization to my self hosted mongodb

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Hello, I have launched my mongodb using sudo systemctl start mongod which runs /usr/bin/mongod --config /etc/mongod.conf.

I have created a superuser user in my admin database:

admin> show users
[
  {
    _id: 'admin.superuser',
    userId: new UUID("554176216d-5d9f-47ab-91c6-f0bf73ffb30asdc"),
    user: 'superuser',
    db: 'admin',
    roles: [ { role: 'root', db: 'admin' } ],
    mechanisms: [ 'SCRAM-SHA-1', 'SCRAM-SHA-256' ]
  }
]

I am able to connect using mongosh "mongodb://localhost:27019/admin" -u superuser --authenticationDatabase admin and then giving “my_pw” (giving the wrong password fails).

After this setup, I add the following lines to my /etc/mongod.conf:

security:
        authorization: "enabled"

and restart mongodb service with sudo systemctl restart mongod.

But then, the same password that worked before is not working anymore:
mongosh "mongodb://localhost:27019/admin" -u superuser --authenticationDatabase admin
“my_pw” fails, even though I just set it!
MongoNetworkError: connect ECONNREFUSED

Is there anything I’m missing here?

2

I just realized that MongoNetworkError: connect ECONNREFUSED actually means that my mongodb is not running… My tab indentation in the .conf file was the issue.

Entry should be:

security:
  authorization: "enabled"

Very confusing that the error comes after asking for the password and not before.