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Create a Database User for Your Federated Database Instance
You must create a database user to access your deployment. For security purposes, Atlas requires clients to authenticate as MongoDB database users to access federated database instances.
Note
If you already created a MongoDB user and added your IP address in your project's IP access list, you can proceed to Procedure.
Required Access
To create a database user, you must have
Organization Owner or Project Owner access to
the project.
Procedure
Estimated completion time: 2 minutes
To add a database user to your cluster:
Open the Connect dialog.
Click the Connect button for your federated database instance.
In the Create a MongoDB User step of the dialog, enter a Username and a Password for your database user.
You'll use this username and password combination to access data on your cluster.
Note
If your password contains special characters, you will need to encode them. For more information, see Special characters in connection string password.
Click Create MongoDB User.
Tip
See also:
For information on configuring additional database users on your cluster, see Configure Database Users.