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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.

The Atlas API authenticates using HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide a programmatic API public key and corresponding private key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request. To learn how to configure API access for an Atlas project, see Configure Atlas API Access.

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

GET /groups/{GROUP-ID}/databaseUsers/{databaseName}/{USERNAME}
Parameter
Type
Necessity
Description
GROUP-ID
string
Required
Unique 24-hexadecimal string that identifies the project.
DATABASE-NAME
string
Required

Database against which the database user authenticates. Database users must provide both a username and authentication database to log into MongoDB.

You may set this parameter value as:

If you don't set an authentication mechanism, Atlas defaults to SCRAM-SHA.

USERNAME
string
Required

Username that this resource retrieves from the MongoDB database. This username should be formatted as:

This endpoint might use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Atlas API resources. All of these are optional.

Name
Type
Necessity
Description
Default
pretty
boolean
Optional
Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format.
false
envelope
boolean
Optional

Flag indicating if Atlas should wrap the response in a JSON envelope.

This option may be needed for some API clients. These clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:

status
HTTP response code
envelope
Expected response body
false

Request Body Parameters

This endpoint doesn't use HTTP request body parameters.

If you set the query element "envelope" : true, this resource wraps the response in a content object.

Response Element
Type
Description
databaseName
string

Database against which the database user authenticates. Database users must provide both a username and authentication database to log into MongoDB.

This resource returns:

If you don't set an authentication mechanism, Atlas defaults to SCRAM-SHA.

deleteAfterDate
string
Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC after which Atlas deletes the database user. This resource returns this parameter if you set an expiration date when creating the entry.
groupId
string
Unique 24-hexadecimal string that identifies the project to which the database user belongs.
labels
array
List that contains key-value pairs that tag and categorize the database user.
links
array

One or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources. The relations between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification

roles
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 database user has the specified role.
roles.databaseName
string
Database on which the database user has the specified role. A role on the admin database can include privileges that apply to the other databases.
roles.roleName
string

Label given to a group of privileges assigned to a database user. This value can either be a built-in role or a custom role.

The admin database accepts these values for the role parameter:

Atlas limits this role to MongoDB databases that it manages. The role allows the user to enable sharding on a database and to shard a collection.

Specific databases accept these values for the role parameter:

Specific collections accept these values for the role parameter:

  • read
  • readWrite

If you don't specify a collection for the read and readWrite roles, Atlas applies the roles to all collections (excluding some system. collections) in the database.

Note

You can only set a custom role when you set "roles.databaseName" : "admin".

scopes
array
List of clusters and Atlas Data Lakes that this user can access. Returns an empty array if the database user has access to all the clusters and Atlas Data Lakes in the project. Atlas grants database users access to all resources by default.
scopes.name
string
Name of the cluster or Atlas Data Lake that the database user can access.
scopes.type
string

Type of resource that the database user can access. This parameter returns one of the following values:

  • CLUSTER
  • DATA_LAKE
username
string

Username needed to authenticate to the MongoDB database or collection. This resource returns:

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/1.1 200 OK
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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