Error: Authentication failed when installing for Windows

Rushi M

Hello,

I'm following the Windows tutorial with this link
https://docs.nodebb.org/installing/os/windows/#system-requirements

Everything was working smoothly until I got to this step

mongo -u admin -p your_password --authenticationDatabase=admin

MongoDB shell version v4.4.1
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/?authSource=admin&compressors=disabled&gssapiServiceName=mongodb
Error: Authentication failed. :
connect@src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:374:17
@(connect):2:6

This is the error I got even though I put in the right password.

Command I ran:

C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.4\bin>mongo -u admin -p ojorocks --authenticationDatabase=admin

When I press show users in admin this is the output

> show users
{
        "_id" : "admin.admin",
        "userId" : UUID("e3c3df1d-f63d-48e3-ae65-b9cf03c86333"),
        "user" : "admin",
        "db" : "admin",
        "roles" : [
                {
                        "role" : "root",
                        "db" : "admin"
                }
        ],
        "mechanisms" : [
                "SCRAM-SHA-1",
                "SCRAM-SHA-256"
        ]
}
{
        "_id" : "admin.admin2",
        "userId" : UUID("0b87390b-2c08-4e21-9183-8a2406a9304e"),
        "user" : "admin2",
        "db" : "admin",
        "roles" : [
                {
                        "role" : "root",
                        "db" : "admin"
                }
        ],
        "mechanisms" : [
                "SCRAM-SHA-1",
                "SCRAM-SHA-256"
        ]
}

I am truly confused did I miss something? I even created an extra admin acct and it didnt work for that either.

PitaJ

I think after changing mongod.cfg you shouldn't be able to connect without authenticating correctly. Please post your mongod.cfg and the output when you run net stop MongoDB and net start MongoDB

Rushi M

@PitaJ Thanks or the reply! I really need help.

Here is where it is located. C:\MongoDB.

Here is what it has:

systemLog:
    destination: file
    path: C:\MongoDB\logs\mongod.log
storage:
    dbPath: C:\MongoDB\data\db
security:
  authorization: enabled

Rushi M

Net stop:

net stop MongoDB
The MongoDB Server (MongoDB) service is stopping.
The MongoDB Server (MongoDB) service was stopped successfully.

Net start:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>net start MongoDB
The MongoDB Server (MongoDB) service is starting..
The MongoDB Server (MongoDB) service was started successfully.