Return the details for the specified database user for your project.
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To use this command, you must authenticate with a user account or an API key with the Project Read Only role.
atlas dbusers describe <username> [options]
Name
Type
Required
Description
username
string
true
Username to retrieve from the MongoDB database. The format of the username depends on the user's method of authentication.
Name
Type
Required
Description
--authDB
string
false
Authentication database name. If the user authenticates with AWS IAM, x.509, or LDAP, this value should be $external. If the user authenticates with SCRAM-SHA, this value should be admin. This value defaults to "admin".
-h, --help
false
help for describe
-o, --output
string
false
Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. To see the full output, use the -o json option.
--projectId
string
false
Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable.
If the command succeeds, the CLI returns output similar to the following sample. Values in brackets represent your values.
USERNAME DATABASE<Username> <DatabaseName>
# Return the details for the SCRAM SHA-authenticating database user named myDbUser:atlas dbuser describe myDbUser --authDB admin --output json
# Return the details for the AWS IAM-authenticating database user with the ARN arn:aws:iam::772401394250:user/my-test-user. Prepend $external with \ to escape the special-use character:atlas dbuser describe arn:aws:iam::772401394250:user/my-test-user --authDB \$external --output json
# Return the details for the X.509-authenticating database user with the RFC 2253 Distinguished Name CN=ellen@example.com,OU=users,DC=example,DC=com. Prepend $external with \ to escape the special-use character:atlas dbuser describe CN=ellen@example.com,OU=users,DC=example,DC=com --authDB \$external --output json
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