The following is my MongoDB connection dial from GoLang. But it's returning a panic "server returned error on SASL authentication step: Authentication failed.". My username, password, hostAddrs and dbName are correct. What am I missing here?
dbName: = os.Getenv("ENV_DBNAME")
userName: = os.Getenv("ENV_DBUSER")
password: = os.Getenv("ENV_DBPASS")
dbHost: = os.Getenv("ENV_DBHOST")
mongoDialInfo: = & mgo.DialInfo {
Addrs: [] string {
dbHost
},
Database: dbName,
Username: userName,
Password: password,
Timeout: 60 * time.Second,
}
sess, err: = mgo.DialWithInfo(mongoDialInfo)
if (err != nil) {
panic(err)
}
I faced similar error and added --authenticationDatabase parameter and it worked while we connecting to a remote MongoDB
Use the similar below format in your code :
$mongorestore --host databasehost:98761 --username restoreuser
--password restorepwd --authenticationDatabase admin --db targetdb ./path/to/dump/
Often we confused with parameter in the mongoexport command with "Log-In" user. The command expects "Database Username" not Log-in username. This is one possibility to input wrong user name. "Database Username" can be found in "Users" tab for a database
I got my answer from this link: https://newbiedba.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/mongodb-3-2-server-returned-error-on-sasl-authentication-step-authentication-failed/
Except for all answers above, the only unmentioned reason is that my password has a special character '$' in it. I think this is a very common practice to have special characters and this may trip many without this simple tip:
When using command line mongo/mongostat/etc.. Single quote your username or password that has special characters!