How to authenticate mongo dB docker container through MongoDB compass? - mongodb

Question

Problem:
I have set up a docker container for MongoDB and mongo-express. Both are up and running successfully. This is how my docker-compose configurations.
questionsdb:
container_name: questionsdb
restart: always
command: mongod --auth
environment:
- MONGO_INITDB_DATABASE=questions
- MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=admin
- MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=org1234
volumes:
- mongo_data:/data/db
ports:
- "27019:27017"
mongo-express:
container_name: mongo-express
restart: always
ports:
- "8081:8081"
volumes:
- mongoadmin_data:/data/dbadmin
environment:
#- ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINUSERNAME=admin
#- ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINPASSWORD=org1234
- ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_SERVER=questionsdb
- ME_CONFIG_OPTIONS_EDITORTHEME=ambiance
- ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_URL=mongodb://admin:org1234#questionsdb:27017
- ME_CONFIG_BASICAUTH_USERNAME=admin#myorg.com
- ME_CONFIG_BASICAUTH_PASSWORD=org#1234
- ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ENABLE_ADMIN=true
links:
- questionsdb
But when I open the mongo-express nothing showing. Then I look on mongo-express logs. Then I saw this.
(node:7) [MONGODB DRIVER] Warning: Current Server Discovery and Monitoring engine is deprecated, and will be removed in a future version. To use the new Server Discover and Monitoring engine, pass option { useUnifiedTopology: true } to the MongoClient constructor.
(node:7) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: MongoError: command listDatabases requires authentication
at Connection.<anonymous> (/node_modules/mongodb/lib/core/connection/pool.js:453:61)
at Connection.emit (events.js:314:20)
at processMessage (/node_modules/mongodb/lib/core/connection/connection.js:454:10)
at Socket.<anonymous> (/node_modules/mongodb/lib/core/connection/connection.js:623:15)
at Socket.emit (events.js:314:20)
at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:297:12)
at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:272:9)
at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:213:10)
at TCP.onStreamRead (internal/stream_base_commons.js:188:23)
(node:7) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:7) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.
Then I tried to access the MongoDB container through MongoDbComapsss like this.
but that also failed with giving me authentication failed error. If I remove MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME and MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD it working without any issues. I tried a lot to find a solution to this one. But I was unable to do so. Can someone help me to solve this issue? Thank you

Answer 1

this issue can be resolved if you put
USERNAME & PASSWORD
encrypted in BASE64
Replace this
ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINUSERNAME=admin
ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINPASSWORD=org1234
with
ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINUSERNAME=YWRtaW4=
ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINPASSWORD=b3JnMTIzNA==
BASE64 Encode & Decoder
https://www.base64encode.org/