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atlas dbusers describe
Return the details for the specified database user for your project.
To use this command, you must authenticate with a user account or an API key with the Project Read Only role.
Syntax
Command Syntax
atlas dbusers describe <username> [options]
Arguments
Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
username | string | true | Username to retrieve from the MongoDB database. The format of the username depends on the user's method of authentication. |
Options
Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
--authDB | string | false | Authentication database name. If the user authenticates with AWS IAM, x.509, or LDAP, this value should be $external. If the user authenticates with SCRAM-SHA, this value should be admin. This value defaults to "admin". |
-h, --help | false | help for describe | |
-o, --output | string | false | Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. To see the full output, use the -o json option. |
--projectId | string | false | Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable. |
Inherited Options
Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
-P, --profile | string | false | Name of the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for the Atlas CLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings. |
Output
If the command succeeds, the CLI returns output similar to the following sample. Values in brackets represent your values.
USERNAME DATABASE <Username> <DatabaseName>
Examples
# Return the details for the SCRAM SHA-authenticating database user named myDbUser: atlas dbuser describe myDbUser --authDB admin --output json
# Return the details for the AWS IAM-authenticating database user with the ARN arn:aws:iam::772401394250:user/my-test-user. Prepend $external with \ to escape the special-use character: atlas dbuser describe arn:aws:iam::772401394250:user/my-test-user --authDB \$external --output json
# Return the details for the X.509-authenticating database user with the RFC 2253 Distinguished Name CN=ellen@example.com,OU=users,DC=example,DC=com. Prepend $external with \ to escape the special-use character: atlas dbuser describe CN=ellen@example.com,OU=users,DC=example,DC=com --authDB \$external --output json