Allow MongoDB Read/Write But Disallow Delete Permission I want a user to be able to read and update, but not able to delete in any collection for MongoDB. 

The command I used is:

db.createUser(
  {
   user: "user",
    pwd: "user",
    privileges: [
       { resource: { db: "icif_pattern" , collection: "" },
         actions: [ "find", "createCollection", "dbStats", "collStats" ] },

    ],
    roles: []
  }
)


But it throws an error:


Error: couldn't add user: "privileges" is not a valid argument to
createUser



I am following the information found in the following article: 

Mongo user roles (MongoDB Docs)
As per MongoDB documentation here Collection-level access control allows administrators to grant users privileges that are scoped to specific collections.

Administrators can implement collection-level access control through user-defined roles. By creating a role with privileges that are scoped to a specific collection in a particular database, administrators can provision users with roles that grant privileges on a collection level.

Required Access

To create a role in a database, you must have:


the createRole action on that database resource.
the grantRole action on that database to specify privileges for the
new role as well as to specify roles to inherit from.


Built-in roles userAdmin and userAdminAnyDatabase provide createRole and grantRole actions on their respective resources.

To create a role with authenticationRestrictions specified, you must have the setAuthenticationRestriction action on the database resource which the role is created.

use admin
db.createRole(
   {
     role: "myClusterwideAdmin",
     privileges: [
       { resource: { cluster: true }, actions: [ "addShard" ] },
       { resource: { db: "config", collection: "" }, actions: [ "find", "update", "insert", "remove" ] },
       { resource: { db: "users", collection: "usersCollection" }, actions: [ "update", "insert", "remove" ] },
       { resource: { db: "", collection: "" }, actions: [ "find" ] }
     ],
     roles: [
       { role: "readWrite", db: "admin" }
     ]
   },
   { w: "majority" , wtimeout: 5000 }
)


Roles

In the roles field, you can specify both built-in roles and user-defined roles.

{ role: "&lt;role&gt;", db: "&lt;database&gt;" }


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