Cannot access authenticated MongoDB collection from ReactiveMongo Play app - mongodb

Question

I have a MongoDB server where I have enabled authentication and created users with DB-specific permissions. The user for this app is defined as shown below i.e. geoAdmin has read, readWrite and dbOwner permissions for the relevant database:
MongoDB shell version: 3.0.0
connecting to: 192.168.2.89/test
> use geo_db
switched to db geo_db
> db.getUser("geoAdmin")
{
"_id" : "geo_db.geoAdmin",
"user" : "geoAdmin",
"db" : "geo_db",
"roles" : [
{
"role" : "read",
"db" : "geo_db"
},
{
"role" : "dbOwner",
"db" : "geo_db"
},
{
"role" : "readWrite",
"db" : "geo_db"
}
]
}
The following query works OK i.e. connecting to the remote server from my local mongo client:
mint:~ $ mongo 192.168.2.89:27017 -u geoAdmin -p secret --authenticationDatabase geo_db
MongoDB shell version: 3.0.0
connecting to: 192.168.2.89/test
> use geo_db
switched to db geo_db
> db.LAD_DEC_2013_GB_BFE.findOne({},{'properties.LAD13NM':1})
{
"_id" : ObjectId("54ffe2824f0787ec1293017f"),
"properties" : {
"LAD13NM" : "Hartlepool"
}
}
I then connect to the same remote host from a ReactiveMongo Play app on the same local client, with this URL in the app config file:
# ReactiveMongo
mongodb.uri = "mongodb://geoAdmin:secret#192.168.2.89:27017/geo_db"
But when my app tries to read from the same collection, I get a MongoDB "code = 13" error:
[DetailedDatabaseException: DatabaseException['not authorized for query on geo_db.LAD_DEC_2013_GB_BFE' (code = 13)]]
The app works fine if I connect to a local MongoDB which does not have authentication enabled.
Any ideas what might be going wrong here?

Answer 1

ReactiveMongo 0.11.7.play23 is supporting mongo 3.0 auth-protocols, but is still using the old as default.
With ReactiveMongo 0.11.7.play23 -plugin, you can make it authenticate with mongo 3.0, by adding "?authMode=scram-sha1" to the end of your mongodb.uri.
E.g.:
mongodb.uri = "mongodb://geoAdmin:secret#192.168.2.89:27017/geo_db?authMode=scram-sha1"

Answer 2

mongo 2.6 uses MONGODB-CR auth protocol and 3.0 uses MONGODB-SHA-1 by default
reactivemongo use MONGODB-CR auth protocol(not sure)
downgrade mongodb 3.0 auth mechanisms to MONGODB-CR
login mongo noauth
remove all user
update the version document for the authSchema.
ex.
db.getSiblingDB("admin").system.users.remove( {} )
db.getSiblingDB("admin").system.version.update(
{ _id: "authSchema" },
{ $set: { currentVersion: 3 } }
);
add authSource parameter to mongodb url
ex.
mongodb.uri = "mongodb://geoAdmin:secret#192.168.2.89:27017/geo_db?authSource=geo_db"