I have a Parse app, and I'm trying to migrate my app's database to a MongoDB instance on mLab.
I already have a fork of Parse Server set up on Heroku, and I'm using Heroku's mLab MongoDB add-on.
I have a database on mLab called heroku_1ksph3jj, and I should be able to connect to it with the following template:
mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>#ds047124.mlab.com:47124/heroku_1ksph3jj
However, each attempt returns:
Server returned error on SASL authentication step: Authentication failed.
I'm unsure what to replace <dbuser> and <dbpassword> with. I have a database user with the same name as my database: heroku_1ksph3jjz, so I used that. And I used the password for that user in place of <dbpassword>. Should I have used something else here?
You can get the dbuser and dbpass with:
heroku config | grep MONGODB_URI
Grab the dbuser (example_user) and dbpass (example_pass) from the response:
MONGOLAB_URI: mongodb://example_user:example_pass#mlab.com:12345/db
As of March 2016, mLab.com only supports mongo 3.0+ (as per a conversation with support), because of their new onerous authentication requirements.
This was not on the website, but I hope it helps someone here!
There's a message to create a user for the specific database:
A database user is required to connect to this database. To create one now, visit the 'Users' tab and click the 'Add database user' button
I'm so sorry that this may seem obvious but, you have to remove this characters <> for the migration to work
In your example would look like this:
mongodb://dbuser:dbpassword#ds047124.mlab.com:47124/heroku_1ksph3jj
Check your mongo client version. If it is in older major version (probably 2.x), update it to 3.x
For future visitors - don't use special characters in password .Even if you change the special character to ascii or unicode it wont work for mLab using mongoose.
Also don't use mLab credential , use db user credentials . I created a new user.
Eg. For me a password containing # character was replaced with ascii value %40 in URI , which worked when using native mongodb driver.
But on using mongoose, i was always getting Authentication Failed .
I removed special characters and db was authenticated via mongoose.
It looks like it was the password that was incorrect, which I'm assuming was set up by Heroku's mLab add-on. There was no obvious way to reset this in the mLab UI, so in the end I created another database user (with a new username and password) and was able to connect with that just fine.
Just go to your Heroku dashboard and check your settings.
Under the name field there's a big button "Reveal Config Vars". Click it and you'll see a MONGODB_URI var with a uri to your db. It'll look something like this:
mongodb://heroku_user:PASSWORDyourLOOKINGfor#ds2238985.mlab.com:63295/heroku_user
Your password is right after the semicolon after the heroku user name.
I know I am too late, just for information.
For getting the info of mLab account that got auto created when mLab addon got added to the application in your heroku account, try the below command.
heroku config:get MONGODB_URI
Ref:
http://algebra.sci.csueastbay.edu/~grewe/CS6320/Mat/NodeJS/Heroku/Heroku_MLabMongoDB.html
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After mLab addon being discontinued on Heroku, I need to get the database backup from mLab to import it to Atlas. The problem is mLab says that tens of accounts have the email address that was used in Heroku. Is there any way to know which account was used with particular app, so I would get the correct database backup?
I got a very good suggestion from Heroku Support.
First examine when was mLab Add-On detached with heroku releases -a <app-name>, it should contain the line like
v77 Detach MONGODB (#ref:mongolab-xxx) addons#heroku.com 2020/11/11 05:20:53 +0200
Then check the variables used in release before this (in my case v76): heroku releases:info v76 -a <app-name>. MONGODB_URI should be among the other variables, so it's possible to get correct mLab username from the string and restore the password.
I am new to sails and its connection to database. I plan to use Heroku to host my app so I would like to use Postgresql.
I have changed config.datastore file with the following code:
default: {
adapter: 'sails-postgresql',
url: 'postgresql://postgres:postgres#localhost:5432/postgres',
max: 1
}
On Sails documentation it sais that url is url: 'postgresql://user:password#host:port/database', but I dont understand where should I get user and password from. Do I need to initiate the postgresql and set it up and define a new database?
I am just trying to understand the mechanics behind this setup.
What you need to do is create a new user for your local PostgreSQL instead of using the default user and database. What I mean is, create a user-specific to your particular project in SQL following this should help https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/sql-createuser.html.(This should also help you set the password)
Then create the database you want to connect to your Sails app to be used by Waterline by following this: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/sql-createdatabase.html (make sure you grant the user you created permissions for this database as well https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/sql-grant.html)
Then all you need is replace the url property value in config/datastore.js with the value following the format
postgres://USERNAME:PASSWORD#localhost:5432/DATABASE_NAME
N.B: Replace USERNAME, PASSWORD, and DATABASE_NAME with the actual username, password, and database name respectively.
When you are deploying to Heroku, Heroku would provide you with an environment variable called DATABASE_URL if you install the Heroku Postgres add-on. You could just pass that to url like so
url: process.env.DATABASE_URL
I have database hosted on MLab and I am trying to connect it with Compass. I am using host and port given in connection string but it is showing error, here is my screenshot:
What am I doing wrong?
Had same problem manage to solve it like this:
A. Go to your db in mlab and in the tab choose "users"
B. Create a new user ex: username: admin password: 123456
C: Go to compass and fill it this way
Example of your connection path
ds012345.mlab.com:56789/myDBname
hostname
ds012345.mlab.com
port
56789
authentication: username /password
admin // or the name of the user you created in step A
123456 // or password for the user you created in step A
authentication database
myDBname // the name of your database in mlab
I just had the same problem.
I fixed it by updating my version of MongoDB Compass. No problems encountered with version 1.15.4.
Also, Authentication Database should not have the value "admin" but the name of the DB to connect you.
To make your connection easier, don't hesitate to copy your entire connection string into the clipboard. Compass detects it and proposes to automatically fill in the connection form.
The problem that I had was the Authentication Database Compass filled in automatically wasn't correct for my setup. By default, this was pointing to admin but it needs to point to the database that the user is associated with.
Summed up: The database of admin didn't exist.
Just to rule it out, double check what database you're pointing to. It should be in the name, like ds739176/database_name where database_name is, you guessed it, the name of your database.
Hope this helps.
The required credentials are not your login credentials to MLab,
instead these are database user credentials.
How to get them:
click on your DB on MLab.
go to users tab and create new user.
use the created users credentials to access db.
set authenticationdatabase to be your database.
I had the same problem. MongoDB url was working in code but Authentication failed was showing in MongoDB Compass.
When I checked, my mongodb password was iam%40me1234.
Here I'm using %40 HTML hex code in the password for # character.
So, If we will use the original character in the password like iam#me1234 in MongoDB Compass then it will work great.
Here is a full list of Hex codes
What I did:
Click on "Fill in connection fields individually" option in Compass.
Enter the hostname (Example ds051234.mlab.com)
Enter PORT (Example 12345)
Select Username/password in the Authentication option.
Enter username and password (Create a new user in mlab.com for your database)
Authentication Database (Just enter the "database name" in this field. Example: heroku_8967jgy5)
I hope this will help you.
I am trying to move my data in MongoDB to Redshift using AWS Glue. To do this, I am trying to add a connection to MongoDB. My MongoDB setup does not have credentials configured. But the Username and Password fields in the Add Connection page are mandatory. Test Connection fails on giving dummy values as they will be considered during the authentication process. Would appreciate any help in this regard.
To be upfront I haven't tried this myself, but to remove the requirement for Username and Password is easy.
Basically in the Migration Setup Wizard in the "Authentication mode" drop-down box select "none". Default value is "password, where the username and password is mandatory.
Hope that assist.
I have installed Foreman via foreman-installer (that pack included Postgres DB 9.5). Now i want to create new user + new database for Zabbix, however it seems that i am doing something wrong. The image shows what commands i typed. The new user is created succesfully but i can't login as it to database. Could someone help me and explain where is the problem?
EDIT: I've added option that was suggested in another thread (WITH LOGIN) but it didn't help me:
I believe the answer is here.
In summary, "peer authentication" means postgres checked the username of the UNIX user (which is not zabbix), and ignored your -U option. Instead, you want to use "password authentication", which you can configure in your pg_hba.conf file. Check the link for instructions how to do that.