Authentication With Motor¶
Warning
As of May 14th, 2025, Motor is deprecated in favor of the GA release of the PyMongo Async API. No new features will be added to Motor, and only bug fixes will be provided until it reaches end of life on May 14th, 2026. After that, only critical bug fixes will be made until final support ends on May 14th, 2027. We strongly recommend migrating to the PyMongo Async API while Motor is still supported. For help transitioning, see the Migrate to PyMongo Async guide.
This page describes using Motor with Tornado. Beginning in version 0.5 Motor can also integrate with asyncio instead of Tornado.
To use authentication, you must start mongod with --auth or, for
replica sets or sharded clusters, --keyFile. Create an admin user and
optionally normal users or read-only users.
See also
To create an authenticated connection use a MongoDB connection URI:
uri = "mongodb://user:pass@localhost:27017/database_name"
client = motor.motor_tornado.MotorClient(uri)
Motor logs in to the server on demand, when you first attempt an operation.