Cannot authenticate into mongo, “auth fails”

Question

I\'ve created an admin user for mongo using these directions:

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/add-user-administrator/

From the mongo client it looks

Answer 1

It appears the problem is that a user created via the method described in the mongo docs does not have permission to connect to the default database (test), even if that user was created with the "userAdminAnyDatabase" and "dbAdminAnyDatabase" roles.