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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion source/tutorial/control-access-to-mongodb-with-authentication.txt
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Expand Up @@ -159,7 +159,11 @@ If there are no users for the ``admin`` database, you may connect via
the localhost interface. That is, if running :program:`mongod` or
:program:`mongos` with :setting:`auth` or :setting:`keyFile`, you can
connect from a client running on the same system as the
:program:`mongod` or :program:`mongos`.
:program:`mongod` or :program:`mongos`, and your connection will be
given full administrative access. This is by design and makes it easier
to bootstrap new deployments. If you do not want this behavior, it
can be disabled by using the "enableLocalhostAuthBypass" setParameter
startup option. See :doc:`/reference/parameters/#param.enableLocalhostAuthBypass`

.. note::

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