Use mongo shell to change user password

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Hi,

I have a database called “mydb.” In it there is a collection called “users,” which is where my users are stored.
I don’t have the mail server setup on the VPS I am using so I cannot use the reset password feature in my meteor app.

How do a change a user email using command line? I tried

mongo
use mydb
db.users.changeUserPassword(“user”, “newPwd”)

but that did not work and I couldn’t find much info online. Any help is much appreciated. I am using Mongo shell v2.6.7

Kamal

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Can’t you use meteor shell?

$ meteor shell
> Accounts.setPassword("userById", "new password", { logout: true });
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The VPS does not have meteor installed on it. I did a meteor build on a test machine and am running the app on a production machine using node

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it looks like meteor uses bcrypt from npm so I think you might be able to create a bcrypt with that module then use that to update it, no?

db.users.update({ _id: "someuserid" }, {
  services: {
    password: {
      bcrypt: "your generated bcrypt"
    }
  }
});

I seem to be able to do it on my system, not sure if it’s a good idea though.

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Thanks for your tips, Corvid. I was able able to login successfully.

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This needs to have the addition that what is hashed using bcrypt is the sha256 of the password SHA256(password)
I know this too old but I think this is important and worth the bump …

So you can install this bcrypt-cli globally like this :

$ npm install -g @carsondarling/bcrypt-cli

then use this to generate your bcrypted password

$ bcrypt $(echo -n "yourPasswordHere" | sha256sum | cut -d " " -f 1) && echo

and finally use mongo for the final blow …

$ mongo admin

and In mongo shell

> db.users.update({username: "yourUserName"}, {$set: { "services.password": { bcrypt: 'bcryptedPassword' } }})
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Hi folks

I want to insert a new user from mongo using the following instruction

db.users.insert({
	createdAt: new Date(), 
	emails: { address: 'enzo@example.com'}, 
	services: {
	  password: { 
	  	bcrypt: "bcryptedPassword"}
	  	}
	}
);

I am using another user encrypted password, the authentication fail.

Any suggestion to improve my insert.

Thanks in advance

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I’ve copied encrypted passwords from one account to another before, and the authentication works. I’m not sure why yours failed.

Why not use the API?

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Hi @maxhodges

Thanks for your response.

I am brand new in meteor, I resolve my problem with Meteor shell, I just discover it

In Meteor shell I just run this command

Accounts.createUser({email: 'info@example.com', password: 'MyPassword'})
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