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Expand Up @@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ Considerations
With access control enabled, ensure you have a user with :authrole:`userAdmin`
or :authrole:`userAdminAnyDatabase` role in the ``admin`` database.

This tutorial assumes a :term:`standalone` environment.

The :doc:`/tutorial/enable-internal-authentication` tutorial has steps
specific to enabling access control on replica sets and sharded clusters.

You can create users before enabling access control or you can create
users after enabling access control. If you enable access control before
creating any user, MongoDB provides a :ref:`localhost exception
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