MongoError: user is not allowed to do action [listIndexes] on [DB.$cmd]

Question

My API code is using the latest Mongoose 5.0.11 with the proper Mongo 3.4 connection string to connect to the free Atlas service.

mongodb://someadmin:


        

Answer 1

I accidentally removed the username from the connection string, so it only had password where it should be username:password which causes this error on any database.