Accessing meteor production database in 2016
<p>It seems the answer in this thread (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11801278/accessing-meteor-production-database">Accessing Meteor production database</a>) does not work anymore when you want to access a meteor production database in 2016. I want to access a meteor production database blah.meteor.com using </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>meteor mongo blah.meteor.com</p>
</blockquote>

<p>instead what I get is:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>connecting to: sg-mother1-6243.servers.mongodirector.com:27017/blah_meteor_com
  2016-01-18T15:21:49.884+0200 Error: 18 { ok: 0.0, errmsg: "auth failed", code: 18 } at src/mongo/shell/db.js:1210
  exception: login failed</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Then I tried</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>meteor mongo --url blah.meteor.com</p>
</blockquote>

<p>I get username cursor. I enter my meteor site username and press enter and then get password cursor. I enter password for the above username and press enter. I get presented with the following url:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>mongodb://client-2ee8c14d:c1546ca8-4e7e-5883-0214-150b309fb4fb@SG-mother1-6242.servers.mongodirector.com:27017/blah_meteor_com</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Then every time I re-enter</p>

<p>meteor mongo --url blah.meteor.com</p>

<p>I am assumed to have logged on already, and I just get presented with a similar url to the one I was presented with just above. 
I read the "meteor mongo command" documentation by entering:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>meteor mongo --help</p>
</blockquote>

<p>In the documentation I read the following line:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Instead of opening a shell, specifying --url (-U) will return a URL
  suitable for an external program to connect to the database. For remote
  databases on deployed applications, the URL is valid for one minute.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>For the meaning, I went back to the thread (stackoverflow.com/questions/11801278/accessing-meteor-production-database) I mentioned in the beggining and read:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>"So what it's saying is, the url provided by running the command with the --url option is for connecting to the database by some external application, i.e. other than meteor."</p>
</blockquote>

<p>I don't know what other application can help me connect to meteor production database other than what I used to do in 2015, which is:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>meteor mongo blah.meteor.com</p>
</blockquote>

<p>I read somewhere that I can use the mongo shell intead but I don't know how to open it and I don't know the mongo installation directory when it is installed with meteor. I am using linux (fedora) OS.</p>

<p>How do I access meteor production database in 2016? Are there upgrades that happened that make me not to be able to access meteor production database as easily as I did in 2015?</p>