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

You can also try this :-

mongo localhost:27017/admin -u admin -p SECRETPASSWORD

Found it in this post

Here obviously the localhost can be some other host and the /admin can be some other database on which authentication has been applied