Linux, MongoDB: Open failed: administratively prohibited, but only for port 27017

Question

I am receiving the error Open failed: administratively prohibited when trying to connect to a mongodb database over ssh.

From other SO posts it seems that this might be caused by a variable AllowTcpConnections yes in /etc/sshd/sshd_config .

So I made sure the variable was correctly set on my server - I also tried with other port (like 8888 for jupyter notebook, or other and they did work!)

Is there anything specific to mongodb / or that port regarding that matter?

Answer 1

According to this post:
https://ianlondon.github.io/blog/mongodb-auth/

You need to do three things:

1) Edit the MongoDB config file:

sudo vim /etc/mongod.conf

2) comment out the bindIp line:

#  bindIp: 127.0.0.1  <- comment out this line

3) uncomment the security line:

security:
  authorization: 'enabled'

Finally, you should have some authorization credentials that allow you to connect remotely (username/password or ssh key, etc).