[DOCS-8951] Add a setParameter that will bypass auth metadata startup validation checks Created: 28/Sep/16  Updated: 30/Oct/23

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: Server
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: Server_Docs_20231030

Type: Task Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Emily Hall Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Won't Do Votes: 0
Labels: None
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Days since reply: 1 year, 14 weeks, 2 days ago
Epic Link: DOCSP-1769

 Description   

During start up, mongod checks various properties of the auth metadata, and will exit if they fail. However, the checks are done even if auth is not enabled. This denies the user the ability to fix any problems by restarting the mongod without --auth, which is the usual way of dealing with auth metadata problems.

The advice given in the log messages is to downgrade to 2.6 and run authSchemaUpgrade. However, this is not possible if the storage engine is something other than MMAPv1. (This means this problem is worse in 3.2 than 3.0, since the default engine is WT.) In this case, the user data becomes completely inaccessible with no workaround to access it.



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Comment by Education Bot [ 31/Oct/22 ]

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