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 · 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

User · 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    gt  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

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

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