[DOCS-3166] Document digestPassword field for createUser/updateUser commands Created: 15/Apr/14  Updated: 10/Jul/14  Resolved: 09/Jul/14

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: v1.3.8

Type: Task Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Jeffrey Yemin Assignee: Tim Slavin
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
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 Description   

digestPassword defaults to true, which means, somewhat counterintuitively, that the server is responsible for password hashing. If a client sets it to false, it indicates to the server that the caller has already hashed the password (by MD5-hashing <username>:mongo:<password>)



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Comment by Githook User [ 10/Jul/14 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'TimSlavinMongoDB', u'name': u'Tim Slavin (MongoDB)', u'email': u'tim.slavin@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-3166: added digestPassword to createUser, updateUser topics

Signed-off-by: kay <kay.kim@10gen.com>
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/2a4db540e6a7cedc6d2dcc8a0a2e5a7dd23510aa

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