I’m trying to set up backups on a replica set using mongodump, authenticating with a user that has the root role, but I’m getting an error that suggests my root user doesn’t have permission to access the config database: root@mongo-db1:/srv/mongo# mongodump --username=rcroot --password="secret" --o…

Intrigued I also did a little test. I could not query the config.system.indexbuilds. But a dump completed successfully. Running mongodump from the 4.2 packages mongodump version: r4.2.8 gives the error @Matt_Winckler posted about. mongodump from 4.4 packages dumps without error mongodump version:…

steevej (Steeve Juneau) September 26, 2020, 10:48pm 3

Thanks for sharing those findings.

User with `root` role cannot access config database