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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions source/connection-troubleshooting.txt
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Expand Up @@ -105,12 +105,12 @@ issues when attempting to connect to MongoDB.
For more information about connection strings,
see :ref:`Connection URI <golang-connection-uri>` in the Connection Guide.

If your connection string contains a username and password, ensure that they
If your connection string contains a database username and database password, ensure that they
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Q: isn't this true about non-DB usernames and passwords too? Same question for line 113 in this file.

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Can connection strings contain non-DB username and pws? I was reading the golang connection guide that states that "the connection string contains your database username and, if you are using password-based authentication, your password," so I was under the impression that the connection string can only contain a db user and not any other type of user.

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I was thinking of the enterprise auth mechanisms, which use Kerberos principal and LDAP username for the username parameter.

I would also hope that anyone coming to this page for help would recognize that username and password apply to them even if they're using their db username/password.

For those reasons, I'd vote to keep username and password for this troubleshooting section

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I'm fine with that! i'll change them back 👍 thanks for the explanation

are in the correct format.

.. note::

If the username or password includes any of the following characters, they
If the database username or database password includes any of the following characters, they
must be `percent encoded <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.1>`__:

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions source/usage-examples.txt
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Expand Up @@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ step to find the
:manual:`connection string </reference/connection-string/>` to define your
``MONGODB_URI`` environment variable to run the usage examples. If your
instance uses :manual:`SCRAM authentication </core/security-scram/>`,
you can replace ``<user>`` with your username, ``<password>`` with your
password, and ``<cluster-url>`` with the URL or IP address of your instance.
you can replace ``<user>`` with your database username, ``<password>`` with your
database password, and ``<cluster-url>`` with the URL or IP address of your instance.

To learn more about connecting to your MongoDB instance, see :ref:`golang-connection-guide`.

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