db.changeUserPassword()¶

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db.changeUserPassword(username, password)¶

Updates a user’s password. Run the method in the database where the user is defined, i.e. the database you created the user.

Parameter	Type	Description
`username`	string	Specifies an existing username with access privileges for this database.
`password`	string	Specifies the corresponding password.
`mechanism`	string	Optional. Specifies the authentication mechanism used. Defaults to either: `SCRAM-SHA-1` on new 3.0 installations and on 3.0 databases that have been upgraded from 2.6 with authSchemaUpgrade; or `MONGODB-CR` otherwise. Changed in version 3.0: In previous version, defaulted to `MONGODB-CR`. For available mechanisms, see authentication mechanisms.
`digestPassword`	boolean	Optional. Determines whether the server receives digested or undigested password. Set to false to specify undigested password. For use with SASL/LDAP authentication since the server must forward an undigested password to `saslauthd`.

To modify the password of another user on a database, you must have the changeAnyPassword action on that database.

The following operation changes the password of the user named accountUser in the products database to SOh3TbYhx8ypJPxmt1oOfL:

use products
db.changeUserPassword("accountUser", "SOh3TbYhx8ypJPxmt1oOfL")

← db.updateUser() db.removeUser() →

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