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Create a Database User

Note

Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {GROUP-ID} is the same as your project ID. For existing groups, your group/project ID remains the same. The resource and corresponding endpoints use the term groups.

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0

The Atlas API uses HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide your Atlas username as the username and Atlas API key as the password as part of the HTTP request.

This endpoint requires that the Atlas user has the Owner role. To view the available Atlas users, click on Users & Teams in the left-hand navigation.

For complete documentation on configuring API access for an Atlas project, see Configure Atlas API Access.

Atlas supports a maximum of 100 MongoDB users per Atlas project.

Note

If you require more than 100 MongoDB users on a project, please contact Atlas support.

Syntax

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POST /api/atlas/v1.0/groups/{GROUP-ID}/databaseUsers

Request Path Parameters

Path Parameter	Necessity	Description
GROUP-ID	Required	Unique identifier for the project.

Request Query Parameters

The following query parameters are optional:

Query Parameter	Type	Description	Default
pretty	boolean	Displays response in a prettyprint format.	false
envelope	boolean	Specifies whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.	false

Request Body Parameters

Body Parameter	Type	Necessity	Description
databaseName	string	Required	The user’s authentication database. A user must provide both a username and authentication database to log into MongoDB. In Atlas deployments of MongoDB, the authentication database is always the admin database.
deleteAfterDate	string	Optional	Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC after which Atlas deletes the user. The specified date must be in the future and within one week of the time you make the API request. Note You may include an ISO 8601 time zone designator to ensure that the expiration date occurs with respect to the local time in the specified time zone.
ldapAuthType	string	Optional	Method by which the provided username is authenticated. If no value is given, Atlas uses the default value of NONE. Accepted values include: NONE Atlas authenticates this user through SCRAM-SHA, not LDAP. USER LDAP server authenticates this user through the user’s LDAP user. GROUP LDAP server authenticates this user using their LDAP user and authorizes this user using their LDAP group. To learn more about LDAP security, see Set up User Authentication and Authorization with LDAP.
groupId	string	Required	Unique identifier of the Atlas project to which the user belongs.
roles	string array	Required	Array of this user’s roles and the databases / collections on which the roles apply. A role allows the user to perform particular actions on the specified database. A role on the admin database can include privileges that apply to the other databases as well. Note The available privilege actions for custom MongoDB roles support a subset of MongoDB commands. See Unsupported Commands in M10+ Clusters for more information. Important If a user is assigned a custom MongoDB role, they cannot be assigned any other roles.
roles .collectionName	string	Required	Collection for which the role applies. You can specify a collection for the read and readWrite roles. If you do not specify a collection for read and readWrite, the role applies to all collections in the database (excluding some collections in the system. database). Note When applied to a collection, the read and readWrite roles in Atlas differ slightly from the built-in MongoDB read and readWrite roles. In Atlas, read provides the following collection-level actions: collStats dbHash find listIndexes In Atlas, readWrite provides the same actions as read, as well as the following additional collection-level actions: convertToCapped createCollection createIndex dropCollection dropIndex insert remove update
roles .databaseName	string	Required	Database on which the user has the specified role. A role on the admin database can include privileges that apply to the other databases.
roles .roleName	string	Required	Name of the role. This value can either be a built-in role or a custom role. The following accepted values of role are restricted to the admin database: atlasAdmin readWriteAnyDatabase readAnyDatabase clusterMonitor backup dbAdminAnyDatabase enableSharding This role is specific to MongoDB databases managed by Atlas. The role allows the user to enable sharding on a database and to shard a collection. The following accepted values of role can be applied to a specific database: dbAdmin read readWrite The following accepted values of role can be applied to a specific collection: read readWrite If you do not specify a collection for the read and readWrite roles, the roles apply to all collections (excluding some system. collections) in the database. Note If you specify a custom role name in this field, the roles.databaseName field must be admin.
password	string	Required	The user’s password. This field is not included in the entity returned from the server.
username	string	Required	Username for authenticating to MongoDB.

Response Elements

If you set the query element envelope to true, the response is wrapped by the content object.

Response Element	Type	Description
databaseName	string	The user’s authentication database. A user must provide both a username and authentication database to log into MongoDB. In Atlas deployments of MongoDB, the authentication database is always the admin database.
deleteAfterDate	string	Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC after which Atlas deletes the user. This field is only present if an expiration date was specified when creating the entry.
groupId	string	Unique identifier of the Atlas project to which the user belongs.
ldapAuthType	string	Method by which the specified username is authenticated. If no value is given, Atlas uses the default value of NONE. Accepted values include: NONE Atlas authenticates this user through SCRAM-SHA, not LDAP. USER LDAP server authenticates this user through the user’s LDAP user. GROUP LDAP server authenticates this user using their LDAP user and authorizes this user using their LDAP group. To learn more about LDAP security, see Set up User Authentication and Authorization with LDAP.
links	document array	One or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources.
roles	string array	Array of this user’s roles and the databases / collections on which the roles apply. A role allows the user to perform particular actions on the specified database. A role on the admin database can include privileges that apply to the other databases as well.
roles .collectionName	string	Collection on which the user has the specified role.
roles .databaseName	string	Database on which the user has the specified role. A role on the admin database can include privileges that apply to the other databases.
roles .roleName	string	Name of the role. The accepted values are: atlasAdmin readWriteAnyDatabase readAnyDatabase backup clusterMonitor dbAdmin dbAdminAnyDatabase enableSharding This role is specific to MongoDB databases managed by Atlas. The role allows the user to enable sharding on a database and to shard a collection. read readWrite A name of a custom MongoDB role
username	string	Username for authenticating to MongoDB.

Example Request

Request

Important

You must modify the following code block with the appropriate credentials and project ID.

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curl --user "{USERNAME}:{APIKEY}" --digest \
  --header "Accept: application/json" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --include \
  --request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/5356823b3794dee37132bb7b/databaseUsers" \
  --data '
    {
      "databaseName" : "admin",
      "password" : "changeme123",
      "roles" : [ {
        "databaseName" : "sales",
        "roleName" : "readWrite"
      }, {
        "databaseName" : "marketing",
        "roleName" : "read"
      } ],
      "username" : "david",
    }'

Response

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}

Response Body

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{
  "databaseName" : "admin",
  "groupId" : "5356823b3794dee37132bb7b",
  "links" : [ ... ],
  "roles" : [ {
    "databaseName" : "sales",
    "roleName" : "readWrite"
  }, {
    "databaseName" : "marketing",
    "roleName" : "read"
  } ],
  "username" : "david",
  "ldapAuthType" : "NONE"
}

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