The mongodump command fails when it authenticates with a read-only user.
This appeared to work in an earlier version, and it would seem to be more secure to not have to use a backup user with write access.
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TOOLS-134 Mongodump and mongoexport should skip collections they don't have read access to
- Closed
- related to
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SERVER-4692 Read-only users should be denied access to system.users collection
- Closed