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Learn MongoDB 4.x

You're reading from   Learn MongoDB 4.x A guide to understanding MongoDB development and administration for NoSQL developers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789619386
Length 610 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Essentials
2. Introducing MongoDB 4.x FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up MongoDB 4.x 4. Essential MongoDB Administration Techniques 5. Section 2: Building a Database-Driven Web Application
6. Fundamentals of Database Design 7. Mission-Critical MongoDB Database Tasks 8. Using AJAX and REST to Build a Database-Driven Website 9. Section 3: Digging Deeper
10. Advanced MongoDB Database Design 11. Using Documents with Embedded Lists and Objects 12. Handling Complex Queries in MongoDB 13. Section 4: Replication, Sharding, and Security in a Financial Environment
14. Working with Complex Documents Across Collections 15. Administering MongoDB Security 16. Developing in a Secured Environment 17. Deploying a Replica Set 18. Replica Set Runtime Management and Development 19. Deploying a Sharded Cluster 20. Sharded Cluster Management and Development 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a database user with read rights

When an application conducts queries only, there is no need to write anything to the database. Accordingly, we need to find a privilege action (that is, right) allowing a user to read from the database. The most likely right would be find. This right allows us to run the pymongo.collection.find() and pymongo.collection.aggregate() methods. This is perfect for an application that only needs to return the results of a query.

We do not assign this right directly to a user, however; instead, we select a role that includes this right, and assign the role to a database user. With this in mind, we will now consider the read built-in role. This role includes the find action privilege (or right), and also allows related operations, such as the ability to list collections and manage cursors (for example, the results of a query).

The database found in the Docker container used for this book is not secured in order to facilitate exercises in earlier...
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