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  1. Documentation
  2. DOCS-1469

Clarify that although userAdmin is "effectively" a super-user, it can still be unauthorized

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    • Server_Docs_20231030
    • mongodb-2.4
    • manual
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      userAdmin/userAdminAnyDatabase are like super-users because they can be used to grant yourself any privilege. But if you only have userAdmin, but haven't granted yourself readWrite (for example), you still won't be able to read or write data.

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            sam.kleinman Sam Kleinman (Inactive)
            spencer@mongodb.com Spencer Brody (Inactive)
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              10 years, 40 weeks, 5 days ago