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The administrator of the database is the right person for the task of granting, or denying, permissions to users for doing operations with database resources. By using roles, we can specify what action can be done with a resource. Therefore, a role is a privilege granted to a user to do specific tasks with specific resources. Before you enable access control, you should create a user that can then create users and assign roles to them once access control is enabled.This user-admin will then be used to create and maintain other users and roles, so needs to be assigned a suitable role to enable it to do so. I assume you already have admin user set up within you system if not refer hare before proceeding. The role userAdminAnyDatabase in MongoDB gives ability to create users and assign roles to them, but by itself it doesn’t allow the user to do anything else. The superuser role in MongoDB is the root . In the this post i will show how to create, show and delete a user in