Create a Database User¶

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Syntax
Example Request
- Request
- Response

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/

The Atlas API uses HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide your Atlas username as the username and group 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 in the left-hand navigation.

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

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

Syntax¶

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

Request Path Parameters¶

Parameter	Required/Optional	Description
`GROUP-ID`	Required.	The unique identifier for the group.

Request Query Parameters¶

Field Required/Optional Description

envelope

Optional.

A boolean that specifies whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.

Defaults to false.

pretty

Optional

A boolean that specifies whether or not to return a “pretty-printed” JSON document.

Defaults to false.

Request Body Parameters¶

Name	Description
`databaseName`	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.
`groupId`	ID of the Atlas group the user belongs to.
`username`	The username for authenticating to MongoDB.
`roles`	An array of the user’s roles and the database on which the user has each role. 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.databaseName`	The 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.collectionName`	The 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 the `read` and `readWrite` roles, the roles apply to all collections (excluding some `system.` collections) in the specified database.
`roles.roleName`	The name of the role. The following possible 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 possible values of `role` can be applied to a specific database: `dbAdmin` `read` `readWrite` The following 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.
`password`	The user’s password. This field is NOT included in the entity returned from the server.

Response Elements¶

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

Name	Description
`links`	One or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources.
`databaseName`	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.
`groupId`	ID of the Atlas group the user belongs to.
`username`	The username for authenticating to MongoDB.
`roles`	An array of the user’s roles and the database on which the user has each role. 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.databaseName`	The 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`	The name of the role. The possible 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`
`roles.collectionName`	The collection for which the role applies.

Example Request¶

Request¶

Important

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

curl -i -u "username:apiKey" --digest -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/5356823b3794dee37132bb7b/databaseUsers" --data '
{
  "databaseName" : "admin",
  "roles" : [ {
    "databaseName" : "sales",
    "roleName" : "readWrite"
  }, {
    "databaseName" : "marketing",
    "roleName" : "read"
  } ],
  "username" : "david",
  "password" : "changeme123"
}'

Response¶

HTTP/1.1 201 Created

{
  "databaseName" : "admin",
  "groupId" : "5356823b3794dee37132bb7b",
  "links" : [ ... ],
  "roles" : [ {
    "databaseName" : "sales",
    "roleName" : "readWrite"
  }, {
    "databaseName" : "marketing",
    "roleName" : "read"
  } ],
  "username" : "david"
}

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