how can I connect to a remote mongo server from Mac OS terminal

Question

I would like to drop into the mongo shell in the terminal on my MacBook   However  I m interested in connecting to a Mongo instance that is running in the cloud  compose io instance via Heroku addon    I have the name  password  host  port  and database name from the MongoDB URI   mongodb   username password somewhere mongolayer com 10011 my database   I have installed mongodb on my MacBook using Homebrew not because I want Mongo running on my Mac  but just to get access to the mongo shell program in order to connect to this remote database   However  I can t find the right command to get me the full shell access I would like   Using instructions found here http   docs mongodb org manual reference program mongo   search for  remote   I am able to get what looks like a connection  but without giving my username or password I am not fully connected   Running db auth username  password  returns 1  as opposed to  auth fails  when I provide incorrect username and password   but I continue to get an  unauthorized  error message when issuing the show dbs command

User · Accepted Answer

You are probably connecting fine but don't have sufficient privileges to run show dbs.

You don't need to run the db.auth if you pass the auth in the command line:

mongo somewhere.mongolayer.com:10011/my_database -u username -p password

Once you connect are you able to see collections?

> show collections

If so all is well and you just don't have admin privileges to the database and can't run the show dbs

User · Answer

With Mongo 3 2 and higher just use your connection string as is   mongo mongodb   username password somewhere mongolayer com 10011 my database

User · Answer

Another way to do this is   mongo mongodb   mongoDbIPorDomain port

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