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mongodb-security
Advanced tools
Portable business logic of MongoDB security model, mostly string formatting.
var security = require('mongodb-security');
security.humanize({cluster: true})
.should.equal('For the deployment');
security.humanize({collection: 'users', db: 'mscope'})
.should.equal('On mscope.users');
security.humanize({collection: '', db: 'mscope'})
.should.equal('On any any collection in the mscope database');
security.humanize({collection: 'users', db: ''})
.should.equal('On the users collection in any database');
var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
var security = require('../');
var format = require('util').format;
var username = 'reportsUser';
var password = 'foo';
var authDB = 'reporting';
var url = 'mongodb://localhost:30000/%s';
MongoClient.connect(format(url, authDB), function(err, db) {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
// log in as that user
db.authenticate(username, password, function(err, res) {
// get the user info with privileges
db.command({
usersInfo: {
user: username,
db: authDB
},
showPrivileges: true
}, function(err, res) {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
var user = res.users[0];
console.log(JSON.stringify(user, null, 2));
// check if user has listDatabases privilege with cluster resource
var listDatabasesAllowed = security.getResourcesWithActions(
user, ['listDatabases']).length === 1;
// if allowed, run listDatabases command, if not, set to [].
// merge with databases from user info on which the user is allowed to
// call listCollections
var databases = security.getResourcesWithActions(
user, ['listCollections'], 'database').map(function(resource) {
return resource.db;
});
console.log('user can run listCollections on:', databases);
// run listCollections on all databases, gather all namespaces
// add required privilege actions here
// @see https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/privilege-actions/
var compassActions = ['find', 'collStats'];
// combine namespaces with ones that user has find+collStats privilege
var namespaces = security.getResourcesWithActions(
user, compassActions, 'collection').map(function(resource) {
return resource.db + '.' + resource.collection;
});
console.log('user can run find + collStats on:', namespaces);
db.close();
});
});
});
security.humanize(:resource)
Take the :resource
of a MongoDB grant and hand back a literate sentence prefix.
FAQs
Portable business logic of MongoDB security model
The npm package mongodb-security receives a total of 39 weekly downloads. As such, mongodb-security popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that mongodb-security demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 32 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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