Mongodb Atlas: not authorized on admin to execute command

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Seaside9 picture Seaside9 · Mar 5, 2018 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

I have a MongoDB Atlas cluster within which I am trying to simply copy a database within the same instance. Unfortunately, every time I try to run db.copyDatabase() or copydb admin command, I get the following error:

not authorized on admin to execute command

Which is very strange, because I just have one user, and it has access to everything, at least as far as I can tell on atlas:

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I did some search in stackoverflow, but it looked like most of the answers pertain to mongod instances running locally, and not ones running in atlas... Did I setup the user wrong?

Answer

Seaside9 picture Seaside9 · Mar 5, 2018

I ended up asking this question to MongoDB University discussion board. In case anyone comes across this, this is apparently because I am using a free cluster.

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