OPTIONS

dropUser

Definition

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

Required Access

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

Example

The following sequence of operations in the mongo shell removes accountAdmin01 from the products database:

use products
db.runCommand( { dropUser: "accountAdmin01",
                 writeConcern: { w: "majority", wtimeout: 5000 }
                 } )