[TOOLS-2369] IAM Role-based authentication - MongoDB Jira

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TOOLS MongoDB 4.4
Documentation Changes:
Needed
Documentation Changes Summary:

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New command line flags

The documentation must note that the user must ensure the temporary security credentials created by an AssumeRole request will be valid for the duration of the operation.

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New command line flags The documentation must note that the user must ensure the temporary security credentials created by an AssumeRole request will be valid for the duration of the operation.

Server 4.4 will add IAM role-based auth, with shell syntax like this (according to the design document):

mongo --authenticationMechanism MONGODB-IAM --authenticationDatabase='$external' --iamAwsAccessKeyId=HEX_STRING --iamAwsSecretAccessKey=HEX_STRING

The tools need to provide a similar capability.

depends on

GODRIVER-1395 MONGODB-AWS Support

is documented by

DOCS-13709 [TOOLS] IAM Role-based authentication

links to

Pull Request (mongodb/mongo-tools master)