MongoDb: How to drop a database using shell using authentication?

Question

I have a authenticated user with all required privileges to drop a database. I want to drop the database from the shell and tried following command

mongo -uuser -ppass newdb --eval "db.dropDatabase();"

I got following:-

MongoDB shell version: 2.4.9
connecting to: newdb
[object Object]

That's it I got no errors and no results. The database still exists with all values.

Answer 1

Your command should work

mongo -uuser -ppass newdb --eval "db.dropDatabase();"

If you access to mongo after that with

mongo -uuser -ppass newdb

The database is created again but empty, so when you said:

The database still exists with all values.

Are you sure that has all collections inside ?

To check if has been deleted you can do:

mongo -uuser -ppass
> show dbs

The "newdb" shouldn't appear.

I've tested it with Mongo 2.4.2.