updateRole¶

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Definition
Behavior
Required Access
Example

Definition¶

updateRole¶

Updates a user-defined role. The updateRole command must run on the role’s database.

An update to a field completely replaces the previous field’s values. To grant or remove roles or privileges without replacing all values, use one or more of the following commands:

Warning

An update to the privileges or roles array completely replaces the previous array’s values.

The updateRole command uses the following syntax. To update a role, you must provide the privileges array, roles array, or both:

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{
  updateRole: "<role>",
  privileges:
      [
        { resource: { <resource> }, actions: [ "<action>", ... ] },
        ...
      ],
  roles:
      [
        { role: "<role>", db: "<database>" } | "<role>",
        ...
      ],
  authenticationRestrictions:
      [
        {
          clientSource: ["<IP>" | "<CIDR range>", ...],
          serverAddress: ["<IP>", ...]
        },
        ...
      ]
  writeConcern: <write concern document>,
  comment: <any>
}

The updateRole command has the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
`updateRole`	string	The name of the user-defined role role to update.
`privileges`	array	Optional. Required if you do not specify `roles` array. The privileges to grant the role. An update to the `privileges` array overrides the previous array’s values. For the syntax for specifying a privilege, see the `privileges` array.
`roles`	array	Optional. Required if you do not specify `privileges` array. The roles from which this role inherits privileges. An update to the `roles` array overrides the previous array’s values.
`authenticationRestrictions`	array	Optional. The authentication restrictions the server enforces on the role. Specifies a list of IP addresses and CIDR ranges users granted this role are allowed to connect to and/or which they can connect from. New in version 3.6.
`writeConcern`	document	Optional. The level of write concern for the update operation. The `writeConcern` document takes the same fields as the `getLastError` command.
`comment`	any	Optional. A user-provided comment to attach to this command. Once set, this comment appears alongside records of this command in the following locations: mongod log messages, in the `attr.command.cursor.comment` field. Database profiler output, in the `command.comment` field. `currentOp` output, in the `command.comment` field. A comment can be any valid BSON type (string, integer, object, array, etc). New in version 4.4.

Roles¶

In the roles field, you can specify both built-in roles and user-defined roles.

To specify a role that exists in the same database where updateRole runs, you can either specify the role with the name of the role:

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"readWrite"

Or you can specify the role with a document, as in:

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{ role: "<role>", db: "<database>" }

To specify a role that exists in a different database, specify the role with a document.

Authentication Restrictions¶

New in version 3.6.

The authenticationRestrictions document can contain only the following fields. The server throws an error if the authenticationRestrictions document contains an unrecognized field:

Field Name	Value	Description
`clientSource`	Array of IP addresses and/or CIDR ranges	If present, when authenticating a user, the server verifies that the client’s IP address is either in the given list or belongs to a CIDR range in the list. If the client’s IP address is not present, the server does not authenticate the user.
`serverAddress`	Array of IP addresses and/or CIDR ranges	A list of IP addresses or CIDR ranges to which the client can connect. If present, the server will verify that the client’s connection was accepted via an IP address in the given list. If the connection was accepted via an unrecognized IP address, the server does not authenticate the user.

Important

If a user inherits multiple roles with incompatible authentication restrictions, that user becomes unusable.

For example, if a user inherits one role in which the clientSource field is ["198.51.100.0"] and another role in which the clientSource field is ["203.0.113.0"] the server is unable to authenticate the user.

For more information on authentication in MongoDB, see Authentication.

Behavior¶

A role’s privileges apply to the database where the role is created. The role can inherit privileges from other roles in its database. A role created on the admin database can include privileges that apply to all databases or to the cluster and can inherit privileges from roles in other databases.

Required Access¶

You must have the revokeRole action on all databases in order to update a role.

You must have the grantRole action on the database of each role in the roles array to update the array.

You must have the grantRole action on the database of each privilege in the privileges array to update the array. If a privilege’s resource spans databases, you must have grantRole on the admin database. A privilege spans databases if the privilege is any of the following:

a collection in all databases
all collections and all database
the cluster resource

You must have the setAuthenticationRestriction action on the database of the target role to update a role’s authenticationRestrictions document.

Example¶

The following is an example of the updateRole command that updates the myClusterwideAdmin role on the admin database. While the privileges and the roles arrays are both optional, at least one of the two is required:

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db.adminCommand(
   {
     updateRole: "myClusterwideAdmin",
     privileges:
         [
           {
             resource: { db: "", collection: "" },
             actions: [ "find" , "update", "insert", "remove" ]
           }
         ],
     roles:
         [
           { role: "dbAdminAnyDatabase", db: "admin" }
         ],
     writeConcern: { w: "majority" }
   }
)

To view a role’s privileges, use the rolesInfo command.

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