How to get the password if it's not in the logs?

[JulianKingman]

How to get the password if it's not in the logs?

[vincebowdren]

Yes, you will have to configure the application to use authentication when it connects. Exactly how, depends on your application; in ours we just give it the entire mongodb url like this:
-e MONGO_URI=mongodb://11.249.120.179:27017/testdb
when I enabled authentication on the database, I had to change the URL to include a username and password:
-e MONGO_URI=mongodb://testAdmin:[email protected]:27017/testdb

[tianon]

This container is just MongoDB with the default configuration, so there's no SSH or authentication -- if you need to access the container after it's started up, the easiest ways to do so are either to use "docker run --link" or "docker exec".

[JulianKingman]

Thanks! Then how do I get the password?

[JulianKingman]

Background: I want to connect via Robomongo, so I need to get the authentication details, which as far as I know, are generated at random and are usually output by the container logs.

[yosifkit]

There is no password or user created automatically. If you want to turn on authentication then you add --auth to the docker run (docker run -d mongo --auth), and then you'll need to connect to it via localhost (docker exec ...) to create an admin user (https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/enable-authentication/).

[JulianKingman]

If I have an application linked to the mongo instance, and I add authentication to it, will I need to do something special with the application, or would it continue to work?

[tianon]

You'd probably have to configure the application to use authentication when it connects, but I'll be the first to admit I haven't played much with authentication (since it's not on by default).