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Note

Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {GROUP-ID} is the same as your project ID. For existing groups, your group/project ID remains the same. The resource and corresponding endpoints use the term groups.

The Atlas Administration API uses HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide your Atlas username as the username and Atlas Administration API key as the password as part of the HTTP request.

This endpoint requires that the Atlas user has the Owner role. To view the available Atlas users, click on Users & Teams in the left-hand navigation.

For complete documentation on configuring API access for an Atlas project, see Get Started with the Atlas Administration API.

Atlas supports a maximum of 100 database users per Atlas project. If you require more than 100 database users on a project, contact Atlas support.

The parameters that this resource requires depend upon the authentication mechanism the database uses. Select from one of the following authentication mechanisms:

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0

POST /groups/{GROUP-ID}/databaseUsers
Path Parameter
Type
Necessity
Description
GROUP-ID
string
Required
Unique 24-hexadecimal string that identifies the project.

This endpoint might use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Atlas Administration API resources. All of these are optional.

Name
Type
Necessity
Description
Default
pretty
boolean
Optional
Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format.
false
envelope
boolean
Optional

Flag indicating if Atlas should wrap the response in a JSON envelope.

This option may be needed for some API clients. These clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:

status
HTTP response code
envelope
Expected response body
false
Body Parameter
Type
Necessity
Description
databaseName
string
Required

Database against which the database user authenticates. Database users must provide both a username and authentication database to log into MongoDB.

You may set this parameter value as:

If you don't set an authentication mechanism, Atlas defaults to SCRAM-SHA.

deleteAfterDate
string
Optional

Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC after which Atlas deletes the database user. The specified date must be in the future and within one week of the time you make the API request.

Note

You may include an ISO 8601 time zone designator to ensure that the expiration date occurs with respect to the local time in the specified time zone.

labels
array
Optional

List that contains key-value pairs that tag and categorize the database user.

Each key and value has a maximum length of 255 characters.

"labels": [
{
"key": "example key",
"value": "example value"
}
]
Note

The labels you define are not visible in the Atlas console. They are returned in the response body when you use the Atlas Administration API to get one, get all, or update one database user.

groupId
string
Required
Unique 24-hexadecimal string that identifies the project to which the database user belongs.
roles
array
Required

Array of this user's roles and the databases / collections on which the roles apply. A role allows the user to perform particular actions on the specified database. A role on the admin database can include privileges that apply to the other databases as well.

Note

The available privilege actions for custom roles support a subset of MongoDB commands. See Unsupported Commands in M10+ Clusters for more information.

Important

If a user is assigned a custom role, they cannot be assigned any other roles.

roles.collectionName
string
Optional

Collection on which the database user has the specified role.

You can specify a collection for the read and readWrite roles. If you do not specify a collection for read and readWrite, the role applies to all collections in the database (excluding some collections in the system. database).

Note

When applied to a collection, the read and readWrite roles in Atlas differ slightly from the built-in MongoDB read and readWrite roles.

In Atlas, read provides the following collection-level actions:

In Atlas, readWrite provides the same actions as read, as well as the following additional collection-level actions:

roles.databaseName
string
Optional
Database on which the database user has the specified role. A role on the admin database can include privileges that apply to the other databases.
roles.roleName
string
Required

Label given to a group of privileges assigned to a database user. This value can either be a built-in role or a custom role.

The admin database accepts these values for the role parameter:

Atlas limits this role to MongoDB databases that it manages. The role allows the user to enable sharding on a database and to shard a collection.

Specific databases accept these values for the role parameter:

Specific collections accept these values for the role parameter:

  • read
  • readWrite

If you don't specify a collection for the read and readWrite roles, Atlas applies the roles to all collections (excluding some system. collections) in the database.

Note

You can only set a custom role when you set "roles.databaseName" : "admin".

scopes
array
Optional

List of clusters and Atlas Data Lakes that this user can access. Returns an empty array if the database user has access to all the clusters and Atlas Data Lakes in the project. Atlas grants database users access to all resources by default.

"scopes": [
{
"name": <resource-name>,
"type": "CLUSTER"|"DATA_LAKE"
}
]
scopes.name
string
Required
Name of the cluster or Atlas Data Lake that the database user can access.
scopes.type
string
Required

Type of resource that the database user can access. This parameter returns one of the following values:

  • CLUSTER
  • DATA_LAKE
username
string
Required

Username needed to authenticate to the MongoDB database or collection.

If you set the query element "envelope" : true, this resource wraps the response in a content object.

Response Element
Type
Description
databaseName
string

Database against which the database user authenticates. Database users must provide both a username and authentication database to log into MongoDB.

This resource returns:

If you don't set an authentication mechanism, Atlas defaults to SCRAM-SHA.

deleteAfterDate
string
Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC after which Atlas deletes the database user. This resource returns this parameter if you set an expiration date when creating the entry.
groupId
string
Unique 24-hexadecimal string that identifies the project to which the database user belongs.
labels
array
List that contains key-value pairs that tag and categorize the database user.
links
array

One or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources. The relations between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification

roles
array

Array of this user's roles and the databases / collections on which the roles apply. A role allows the user to perform particular actions on the specified database. A role on the admin database can include privileges that apply to the other databases as well.

roles.collectionName
string
Collection on which the database user has the specified role.
roles.databaseName
string
Database on which the database user has the specified role. A role on the admin database can include privileges that apply to the other databases.
roles.roleName
string

Label given to a group of privileges assigned to a database user. This value can either be a built-in role or a custom role.

The admin database accepts these values for the role parameter:

Atlas limits this role to MongoDB databases that it manages. The role allows the user to enable sharding on a database and to shard a collection.

Specific databases accept these values for the role parameter:

Specific collections accept these values for the role parameter:

  • read
  • readWrite

If you don't specify a collection for the read and readWrite roles, Atlas applies the roles to all collections (excluding some system. collections) in the database.

Note

You can only set a custom role when you set "roles.databaseName" : "admin".

scopes
array
List of clusters and Atlas Data Lakes that this user can access. Returns an empty array if the database user has access to all the clusters and Atlas Data Lakes in the project. Atlas grants database users access to all resources by default.
scopes.name
string
Name of the cluster or Atlas Data Lake that the database user can access.
scopes.type
string

Type of resource that the database user can access. This parameter returns one of the following values:

  • CLUSTER
  • DATA_LAKE
username
string

Username needed to authenticate to the MongoDB database or collection. This resource returns:

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
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