Hi starting yesterday I am getting `AuthenticationFailed` on

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Hi starting yesterday I am getting `AuthenticationFailed` on backend connecting to mongodb I am using this on kubernetes using this by < adventurous vase 72101> I checked `MONGODB ROOT PASSWORD` env var for mongodb is same as what we use in `MONGODB URI` has there been any change in `growthbook growthbook latest` image

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

You re the 2nd person to report auth issues with the latest Docker build The changes in the latest commit are completely unrelated to auth but maybe the build got corrupted somehow I m going to force a new build and see if that fixes it

red-oxygen-69265 · Answer

I switched to an older tag but didn t fix

red-oxygen-69265 · Answer

for example `growthbook growthbook git 5fb0979` shows same issue

red-oxygen-69265 · Answer

what is the DB name

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

It uses whatever is in your Mongo connection string

red-oxygen-69265 · Answer

for me it is `<mongodb root> ab mongodb 27017 ` am I missing DB name

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

yes you can add it after the slash It has a default DB name it uses as a fallback I think `test`

red-oxygen-69265 · Answer

no that doesn t work for whatever reason I editted this in the morning and maybe forget the old DB any chance I can find that trying to connec to mongodb but `show dbs` doesn t list any db

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

MongoDB Compass is a nice GUI for interacting with the db

red-oxygen-69265 · Answer

I get auth failed on that too weird

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

I wonder if it somehow started multiple Mongo containers when you updated Happy to jump on a call and help debug if that would be helpful

red-oxygen-69265 · Answer

Thanks < future teacher 7046> it helped a lot

fresh-tailor-1332 · Answer

< red oxygen 69265> How did you solved this please

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

It was a MongDB authentication error Needed to add ` authSource=admin` to the Mongo connection string

fresh-tailor-1332 · Answer

Thanks < future teacher 7046> But looks like `authSource` is already defaulted to `admin` See

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

I know that s what it says in the docs but it doesn t seem to actually behave that way in practice If you specify a database name in the connection string it seems to use that as the authdb unless you explicitly tell it otherwise

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

So doing ` test` at the end of the connection string won t work but doing ` test authSource=admin` does

fresh-tailor-1332 · Answer

Growthbook documentation uses `MONGODB URI=<mongodb root password mongo 27017 >` do we need to add a DB name

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

The default setup is optimized for testing out growthbook on localhost For production you typically do want to specify more connection options including a DB name