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Pass the mongosh password inline instead of a bare -p #70

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions getting-started/prebuilt-packages.md
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Expand Up @@ -65,10 +65,10 @@ Installing the packages puts files on disk. The setup wizard creates the Postgre
sudo documentdb-setup --admin-user admin
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It prompts for the admin password; for servers and CI pass `--admin-password-file <file>` or `--admin-password-stdin` together with `--yes`. Then connect (`mongosh` is not shipped by these packages):
It prompts for the admin password; for servers and CI pass `--admin-password-file <file>` or `--admin-password-stdin` together with `--yes`. Then connect (`mongosh` is not shipped by these packages). A bare `-p` makes `mongosh` prompt, so pass the password inline in scripts — a non-interactive shell otherwise sends an empty one and fails with the unhelpful `MongoServerError: Invalid key`:

```bash
mongosh localhost:10260 -u admin -p --authenticationMechanism SCRAM-SHA-256 \
mongosh localhost:10260 -u admin -p '<PASSWORD>' --authenticationMechanism SCRAM-SHA-256 \
--tls --tlsAllowInvalidCertificates --eval 'db.runCommand({ping: 1})'
```

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