MongoDB, an open-source document store and most popular NoSQL database on the market today, offers a variety of advanced features to administer security over your MongoDB deployments. In this tutorial post, we’re going to show you how to set up role-based access control (RBAC) to manage user access across your MongoDB systems for reIndex, mongodump and mongorestore.
If you’re the administrator of your MongoDB databases, you’ve likely received requests to provide an individual user with the capabilities to perform a certain action(s). MongoDB’s security features are fairly mature now, and allow you to create and assign very granular role-based access control.