Mongo Login Failures in delete-databases.sh

If you have trouble running delete-databases.sh , such as:

./delete-databases.sh
exception: login failed
No pattern specified on the command line (such as ./delete-databases.sh '2018-05-31', so we will just list databases available to delete. Press enter when ready to see list.


2019-04-25T11:46:18.589-0400 Error: 18 { ok: 0.0, errmsg: "auth failed", code: 18, codeName: "AuthenticationFailed" } at src/mongo/shell/db.js:1292
Exiting.

This may be a result of a mismatch between the mongo command line client and the mongo server software. To check, run:

mongo --version

and see if you have version 3.6. If not, follow the instructions to upgrade the client at https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.6/administration/install-on-linux/ . It amounts to adding a third party package repo and then installing the “mongodb-org-shell” package.

You can tell if you were successful by running:

mongo --version

and checking that the MongoDB shell version is v3.6.x.

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