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atlas dbusers certs create

Create a new Atlas-managed X.509 certificate for the specified database user.

The user you specify must authenticate using X.509 certificates. You can't use this command to create certificates if you are managing your own Certificate Authority (CA) in self-managed X.509 mode.

atlas dbusers certs create [options]
Name
Type
Required
Description

-h, --help

false

help for create

--monthsUntilExpiration

int

false

Number of months until the X.509 certificate expires. This value defaults to 3.

-o, --output

string

false

Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file.

--projectId

string

false

Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable.

--username

string

true

Username of a database user.

Name
Type
Required
Description

-P, --profile

string

false

Human-readable label that identifies the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for the Atlas CLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings. To learn about profiles for MongoCLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-configuration-file.

# Create an Atlas-managed X.509 certificate that expires in 5 months for a MongoDB user named dbuser for the project with ID 5e2211c17a3e5a48f5497de3:
atlas dbusers certs create --username dbuser --monthsUntilExpiration 5 --projectId 5e2211c17a3e5a48f5497de3 --output json

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