MongoDB auth=true clusterAdmin still has lack of priveleges - linux

Question

I need a little help with mongo.
I installed 2.4.9 version from accroding to this instructions:
For ubuntu - http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/
For Debian - http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-debian/
I followed manuals and documentation. Everything worked fine but when I change mongo settings to "auth=true" permissions go crazy.
Here is my user:
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5305dd8729ae7b95a4bde944"),
"user" : "root",
"pwd" : "063bbfd478f7b78df6c93b6202af9145",
"roles" : ["clusterAdmin", "userAdminAnyDatabase",
"readWriteAnyDatabase", "dbAdminAnyDatabase" ] }
I used rockmongo. And when I open my mongodb it says that I don't have enough permissions to run command db.getCollectionNames()
It says: Execute failed:unauthorized
And the same thing for creating users, managing databases.
I can't imagine what more permissions should I provide to user.
As it is said in manual this user is the first one I created. I gave him all highest admin privileges.
After changing auth parameter to auth=true
I also can't login in command line.
$ mongo -uroot -p <my password> --host 127.0.0.1
MongoDB shell version: 2.4.9
connecting to: 127.0.0.1:27017/test
Thu Feb 20 11:56:17.510 Error: 18 { code: 18, ok: 0.0, errmsg: "auth fails" } at src/mongo/shell/db.js:228
exception: login failed
By the way I tried password with and without braces. With long option and short one. This way -p<my password> and this way -p <my password>
But application (use simple db users) works fine.
I created database and two users (before making auth=true) and they seems fine for applications that use them.
I couldn't google any information. In most cases adding clusterAdmin or other permissions solves the problem for them.
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 and Debian 7 (In both same behavior)
MongoDb: 2.4.9
What is my mistake?

Answer 1

Did you create the user on the admin database?
clusterAdmin and the *AnyDatabase permissions apply only on the admin database.
When you authenticate, you'll need to authenticate against the admin database and then access other databases according to user's permissions.
mongo --authenticationDatabase admin -u root -p <my password> --host 127.0.0.1