dropUser¶

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dropUser¶

Removes the user from the database on which you run the command. The dropUser command has the following syntax:

{
  dropUser: "<user>",
  writeConcern: { <write concern> }
}

The dropUser command document has the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
`dropUser`	string	The name of the user to delete. You must issue the `dropUser` command while using the database where the user exists.
`writeConcern`	document	Optional. The level of write concern for the removal operation. The `writeConcern` document takes the same fields as the `getLastError` command.

Before dropping a user who has the userAdminAnyDatabase role, ensure you have at least another user with user administration privileges.

You must have the dropUser action on a database to drop a user from that database.

The following sequence of operations in the mongo shell removes reportUser1 from the products database:

use products
db.runCommand( {
   dropUser: "reportUser1",
   writeConcern: { w: "majority", wtimeout: 5000 }
} )

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