[DOCS-3422] Downgrade instructions re: authentication incorrect, not overly comprehensible Created: 17/May/14 Updated: 01/Jul/14 Resolved: 01/Jul/14 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Documentation |
| Component/s: | manual |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | v1.3.7 |
| Type: | Task | Priority: | Major - P3 |
| Reporter: | Richard Kreuter (Inactive) | Assignee: | Kay Kim (Inactive) |
| Resolution: | Done | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | None | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
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| Days since reply: | 9 years, 33 weeks, 1 day ago |
| Description |
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The doc for downgrading the auth info from 2.6 to 2.4 either don't work, or else ought to be much more explicit: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/release-notes/2.6-downgrade/#downgrade-2-6-user-authorization-model Below is a transcript of a session connecting to a v2.6.1 server where a user with userAdminAnyDatabase and readWrite on admin wasn't able to perform write operations analogous to step 3 in the downgrade instructions. I can't tell from the rest of the documentation whether readWrite implies the privileges stipulated in step 1 of the instructions. (readWrite privileges were sufficient to create a collection called "test" in the same database.) In any case, step 1 of the instructions ought to inform the user how to give themselves the appropriate privileges to run the rest of the steps, if that's actually possible. I observe that the text of step 1 fails even to link to any other place that would explain what the 4 lines of privileges mean and/or how they're to be set up. Additionally, step 2 of the instructions fails silently. Probably engineering ought to furnish scripts for critical operations such as these, rather than burdening docs this way. I'm sorry they've made this your problem.
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| Comments |
| Comment by Githook User [ 01/Jul/14 ] |
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Author: {u'username': u'kay-kim', u'name': u'kay', u'email': u'kay.kim@10gen.com'}Message: |
| Comment by Githook User [ 01/Jul/14 ] |
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Author: {u'username': u'kay-kim', u'name': u'kay', u'email': u'kay.kim@10gen.com'}Message: tweak some typos |