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

This is kind of a specific case, but in case anyone gets here with my problem:

In MongoHQ, it'll show you a field called "password", but it's actually just the hash of the password. You'll have to add a new user and store the password elsewhere (because MongoHQ won't show it to you).