You can use createUser() method for this. Following is the syntax −
db.createUser( { user: "yourUserName", pwd: "yourPassword", roles: [ { role: "read", db: "yourDatabaseName" } ] } );
Let us create a user in MongoDB. Here, we are using database ‘test’ −
> db.createUser( ... { ... user: "David", ... pwd: "David123456", ... roles: [ { role: "read", db: "test" } ] ... } ... );
This will produce the following output −
Successfully added user: { "user" : "David", "roles" : [ { "role" : "read", "db" : "test" } ] }