Error message for X.509 without authSource=$external is unhelpful

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      See COMPASS-5801 and MONGOSH-1052:

      Connecting to a connection string like "mongodb+srv://hostname/?authMechanism=MONGODB-X509&tls=true&tlsCertificateKeyFile=filename" fails with "[object Object] can only have authSource set to '$external'", where obviously "[object Object]" is not what this should really say.

      Source line: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/blob/ac4aabc9cf49c78ca5854b0185e2fc5ae983d3cf/src/connection_string.ts#L339

            Assignee:
            Bailey Pearson
            Reporter:
            Anna Henningsen
            Daria Pardue
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