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Update 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.

Syntax

Send only those fields where you will change the value.

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PATCH /api/atlas/v1.0/groups/{GROUP-ID}/databaseUsers/{databaseName}/{USERNAME}

Behavior

You can update a user’s roles and password. Additionally, for temporary users, you can update the user’s expiration date or set the user to be permanent. You cannot update the user’s name or authentication database, which is admin. You also cannot update permanent users to be temporary.

Request Path Parameters

Parameter	Required/Optional	Description
GROUP-ID	Required.	The unique identifier for the project.
databaseName	Required.	The user’s authentication database. Accepted values include: $external if the user is authenticated using X.509 certificates, LDAP or AWS IAM. admin users authenticated using SCRAM-SHA. This is the default authentication scheme in Atlas.
USERNAME	Required.	The username to update. Must be a fully qualified distinguished name, as defined in RFC 2253, if: ldapAuthType is USER or GROUP, or x509Type is CUSTOMER. Must be an URL-encoded AWS ARN if: awsIAMType is USER or ROLE.

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

Name	Description
deleteAfterDate	Optional ISO-8601-formatted UTC date 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. To update a temporary user to be permanent, set the value of this field to null. 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. Important You can only modify the expiration date for a user if an expiration date was specified when creating the user. You cannot assign a deleteAfterDate to a permanent user.
labels	Array of documents containing key-value pairs that tag and categorize the database user. Each key and value has a maximum length of 255 characters. "labels": [ { "key": "example key", "value": "example value" } ]
roles	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 roles support a subset of MongoDB commands. See Unsupported Commands in M10+ Clusters for more information. Important If a user is assigned a custom role, they cannot be assigned any other roles.
roles.databaseName	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	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.roleName	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	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.

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. Returned values include: $external if the user is authenticated using X.509 certificates, LDAP, or AWS IAM. admin users authenticated using SCRAM-SHA. This is the default authentication scheme in Atlas.
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.
labels	array of documents	Array containing key-value pairs that tag and categorize the database user.
ldapAuthType	string	Method by which the specified username is authenticated. If no value is given, Atlas uses the default value of NONE. Returned 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.
x509Type	string	X.509 method by which the provided username is authenticated. If no value is given, Atlas uses the default value of NONE. The possible types are: NONE The user does not use X.509 authentication. MANAGED The user is being created for use with Atlas-managed X.509. Externally authenticated users can only be created on the $external database. CUSTOMER The user is being created for use with Self-Managed X.509. Users created with this x509Type require a Common Name (CN) in the username field. To learn more, see RFC 2253. Externally authenticated users can only be created on the $external database.
awsIAMType	string	If this value is set, the new database user authenticates with AWS IAM credentials. Possible response values are: NONE The user does not use AWS IAM credentials. USER New database user has AWS IAM user credentials. ROLE New database user has credentials associated with an AWS IAM role.
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 role
username	string	Username for authenticating to MongoDB. A fully qualified distinguished name, as defined in RFC 2253, is returned if: ldapAuthType is USER or GROUP, or x509Type is CUSTOMER. An ARN is returned if: awsIAMType is USER or ROLE.

Examples

Request

• SCRAM-SHA
• X.509 and LDAP
• AWS IAM

Update one database user that Atlas authenticates using SCRAM-SHA and the admin database.

Important

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

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curl -i -u "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest -X PATCH \
  "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/5356823b3794dee37132bb7b/databaseUsers/admin/david" \
  --header "Accept: application/json" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '
  {
    "roles" : [ {
      "databaseName" : "service",
      "roleName" : "read"
    } ]
  }'

Update one database user that Atlas authenticates using X.509 or LDAP and the $external database.

Important

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

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curl -i -u "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest -X PATCH \
  "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/5356823b3794dee37132bb7b/databaseUsers/\$external/CN=david@example.com,OU=users,DC=example,DC=com" \
  --header "Accept: application/json" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '
  {
    "roles" : [ {
      "databaseName" : "service",
      "roleName" : "read"
    } ]
  }'

Update one database user that Atlas authenticates using AWS IAM credentials and the $external database.

Note

The / character must be replaced with %2F in the AWS ARN.

Important

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

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curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
  --header "Accept: application/json" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --include \
  --request PATCH "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/5dd5a6b8f10fab1d71a58495/databaseUsers/\$external/arn:aws:iam::358363220050:user%2Fmongodb-aws-iam-auth-test-user" \
  --data '{
            "roles": [ { "databaseName": "admin", "roleName": "read" } ]
          }'

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/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}

Response Body

{
  "databaseName" : "admin",
  "groupId" : "5356823b3794dee37132bb7b",
  "labels" [],
  "links" : [ ... ],
  "roles" : [ {
    "databaseName" : "service",
    "roleName" : "read"
  } ],
  "username" : "david",
  "awsIAMType" : "NONE",
  "x509Type" : "NONE",
  "ldapAuthType" : "NONE"
}

{
  "awsIAMType" : "NONE",
  "databaseName" : "$external",
  "groupId" : "5356823b3794dee37132bb7b",
  "labels" [],
  "links" : [ ... ],
  "roles" : [ {
    "databaseName" : "service",
    "roleName" : "read"
  } ],
  "username" : "CN=david@example.com,OU=users,DC=example,DC=com"
}

{
  "awsIAMType" : "USER",
  "databaseName" : "$external",
  "groupId" : "5356823b3794dee37132bb7b",
  "labels" [],
  "links" : [ ... ],
  "roles" : [ {
    "databaseName" : "admin",
    "roleName" : "read"
  } ],
  "username" : "arn:aws:iam::358363220050:user/mongodb-aws-iam-auth-test-user",
  "ldapAuthType" : "NONE",
  "x509Type" : "NONE"
}

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