Mongo authentication user can't drop database

my question is - is it possible to define user in the Mongo database who will be able to drop the database? Maximum user privilege is "dbAdmin" but that privilege doesn't allow users to drop the database, only collections can be dropped.

I know that "clusterAdmin" has rights to drop the database, but that role can't be defined in regular database, only in admin database...

Grant your user the "root" role and you will be able to delete the dbs. You do NOT have to disable authentication to do this, as long as you have an admin account this will work.

use admin;
db.grantRolesToUser("adminUser", ["root"]);

Now delete the database

use databaseToDelete;
db.dropDatabase();

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