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Add note about extended localhost exception in 3.4
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Signed-off-by: Andrew Aldridge <[email protected]>
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kirbyk authored and i80and committed May 16, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -145,6 +145,14 @@ the first user in the ``admin`` database. The first user must have
privileges to create other users, such as a user with the
:authrole:`userAdmin` or :authrole:`userAdminAnyDatabase` role.

.. versionchanged:: 3.4

MongoDB 3.4 extended the localhost exception to permit execution of the
:method:`db.createRole()` method. This method allows users authorizing via
LDAP to create a role inside of MongoDB that maps to a role defined
in LDAP. See :ref:`LDAP Authorization <security-ldap-external>` for more
information.

.. versionchanged:: 3.0

The localhost exception changed so that these connections *only*
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