Beginners starting with MongoDB would come across the requirement of enabling authentication on MongoDB database. This blog presents tips and code sample on how to enable login on MongoDB database such that one would require to pass their user credentials in order to access the database.
In order to enable authentication for MongoDB databases, following can be done. This would essentially mean that users would have to provide user credentials in order to access a specific database. Otherwise, anyone can access any database using command such as mongo.
security: authorization: enabled
sudo mongod --dbpath /path/to/mongodb/data --auth
Note that if you do not start mongodb database with sudo command, you will end up getting following error:
exception in initAndListen: 20 Attempted to create a lock file on a read-only directory
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