diff --git a/env.json b/env.json
index b9857013..a9a3fd6e 100644
--- a/env.json
+++ b/env.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "MONGO_HOSTNAME": {
     "type": "string",
-    "default": "mongodb://rems-admin-pims-root:rems-admin-pims-password@localhost:27017",
+    "default": "mongodb://rems-user:pass@127.0.0.1:27017",
     "required": true
   },
   "MONGO_DB_NAME": {
diff --git a/mongo-init.js b/mongo-init.js
index 657e799d..7e4006d0 100644
--- a/mongo-init.js
+++ b/mongo-init.js
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 // Create Databases
 const dbPims = db.getSiblingDB('pims');
 const dbRemsAdmin = db.getSiblingDB('remsadmin');
-
+dbRemsAdmin.createUser({ user: "rems-user",
+  pwd: "pass",
+  roles: [
+    { role: "readWrite", db: "remsadmin" } 
+  ]
+})
 // Create Collections
 dbPims.createCollection('pims-tmp');
 dbRemsAdmin.createCollection('remsadmin-tmp');
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ddb7ebc0..b3a8502a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
     "moment": "^2.24.0",
     "moment-timezone": "^0.5.40",
     "mongodb": "^4.12.1",
+    "mongoose": "^6.9.2",
     "morgan": "^1.9.1",
     "tingodb": "^0.6.1",
     "uid": "^2.0.1",
diff --git a/src/lib/MongoDatabase.ts b/src/lib/MongoDatabase.ts
index 4b726c87..448f58c1 100644
--- a/src/lib/MongoDatabase.ts
+++ b/src/lib/MongoDatabase.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { Database } from './Database';
 import * as mongoDB from 'mongodb';
-
+import mongoose from 'mongoose';
 export class MongoDatabase extends Database {
   options: any;
   db_name: string;
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ export class MongoDatabase extends Database {
     new Promise(resolve => {
       // Connect to mongo
       console.log('MongoDatabase connect: ' + this.location);
-      this.client = new mongoDB.MongoClient(this.location);
+      const dbString = `${this.location}/${this.db_name}`;
+      this.client = new mongoose.mongo.MongoClient(dbString);
       this.database = this.client.db(this.db_name);
-      return resolve(this.client.connect());
+      return resolve(mongoose.connect(dbString));
     });
 }