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

This is the way to access an authenticate MongoDB database from terminal

mongo -u user_name -p "your_password" host_name/database_name

Ex:

mongo -u hasib -p "123456" localhost/my_db