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Make sure mongorestoring user/role data doesn't interfere with ongoing user or role modifications

    • Type: Icon: Bug Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
    • 2.6.0-rc1
    • Affects Version/s: 2.5.5
    • Component/s: Security, Sharding, Tools
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      If you use mongorestore to restore user or role data, those updates could conflict with other user or role management operations going on in the cluster.
      Mongos uses a distributed lock to prevent user modifications performed on one mongos from conflicting with modifications from another mongos, while mongod uses a mutex. We should acquire the same lock that the user management commands do whenever mongorestore is restoring user/role data to prevent conflicting writes.

      Proposed way to do this is to introduce two new commands: lockAuthzUpdateLock and unlockAuthzUpdateLock, and use them in mongorestore.

            Assignee:
            spencer@mongodb.com Spencer Brody (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            spencer@mongodb.com Spencer Brody (Inactive)
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