[DOCS-6454] Comment on: "manual/core/authentication.txt" Created: 26/Oct/15  Updated: 03/Nov/17  Resolved: 26/Oct/15

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 01112017-cleanup

Type: Bug Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Docs Collector User (Inactive) Assignee: Kay Kim (Inactive)
Resolution: Won't Fix Votes: 0
Labels: collector-298ba4e7
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified
Environment:

Location: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/authentication/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.71 Safari/537.36
Referrer: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/add-user-administrator/
Screen Resolution: 1680 x 1050
repo: docs
source: core/authentication


Participants:
Days since reply: 8 years, 16 weeks, 2 days ago

 Description   

I just want to get going on using mongo within an application.

That means I want to configure the application with a username and password and tell it which collection etc to access.

I really do not understand why I need to understand your whole !@#$!# security model to do this.

Why do you not have a quick setup instructions that actually tells new developers how to do the setup that they need to.. given that 98% of time, they just want to be able to get a user who can read/write/restore data on just one collection..

I am having to read 10 documents on 3 different versions of mongo to just get things started.

Your application would have much much much much much much better adoption if you actually test the first hour with a new developer who just wants to get going.

Why are you wasting my time. DONT MAKE ME LEARN EVERYTHING TO DO ANYTHING.

-ft



 Comments   
Comment by Kay Kim (Inactive) [ 26/Oct/15 ]

While sympathetic, I don't quite think the statistics mentioned in the description is quite correct. Different users have different requirements and the emphasis on understanding the security features is to underscore the importance of getting security correct.

That said, as the security section is undergoing significant rewrite, the updated security section will include links in the intro sections that should allow people to skip to the sections/tutorials they want.

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