pymongo auth failed in python script
<p>I have installed mongodb and enabled auth. and its working find. I can connect it from remote notebook using robomongo application:</p>

<pre><code>Host: SERVER_IP
PORT: 27017
DATEBASE: prod-db
USERNAME: user_name
PASS: user_password
Auth Mechanism: MONGODB-CR
</code></pre>

<p>and We can connect from server shell locally using:</p>

<pre><code>$ mongo prod-db -u user_name -p user_password
</code></pre>

<p>Everything works fine, but when we try it using pymongo api. authentications failed. below is the python code:</p>

<pre><code>from pymongo import MongoClient

client = MongoClient()
client.prod_db.authenticate('user_name', 'user_password', mechanism='MONGODB-CR')
db = client.prod_db
result = db.users.find()

for document in result:
    print(document)
</code></pre>

<p>Tools used:</p>

<pre><code>python 2.7
pymongo versiob 3.3.1
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.10
$ mongod --version
db version v2.6.10
2016-10-31T16:34:59.868+0000 git version: nogitversion
2016-10-31T16:34:59.868+0000 OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.2g  1 Mar 2016
</code></pre>

<p>Error trace:</p>

<pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pymongo/database.py", line 1018, in authenticate
    connect=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pymongo/mongo_client.py", line 444, in _cache_credentials
    sock_info.authenticate(credentials)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pymongo/pool.py", line 343, in authenticate
    auth.authenticate(credentials, self)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pymongo/auth.py", line 464, in authenticate
    auth_func(credentials, sock_info)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pymongo/auth.py", line 439, in _authenticate_mongo_cr
    sock_info.command(source, query)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pymongo/pool.py", line 239, in command
    read_concern)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pymongo/network.py", line 102, in command
    helpers._check_command_response(response_doc, None, allowable_errors)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pymongo/helpers.py", line 205, in _check_command_response
    raise OperationFailure(msg % errmsg, code, response)
</code></pre>

<p><strong>Solution:</strong>
problem was with database name, following code works fine:</p>

<pre><code>from pymongo import MongoClient

client = MongoClient('mongodb://user_name:user_password@localhost:27017/prod-db')
db = client['prod-db']

result = db.users.find()
for document in result:
    print document
</code></pre>