command line authentication of mongo fails

Question

I am running mongo 2.2.2 on osx.

When I do the following authentication is going fine:

$ mongo
>> use admin
>> db.auth(\"uname\", \"passw         


        

Answer 1

You have to user the --authenticationDatabase to indicate mongodb where to find the user you have created. For example:

mongo admin -u uname -p 'password' --authenticationDatabase admin